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200 medium of the newspapers, and, when they asked how she felt, she answered, 'she had something else to do than to attend to her feelings;' from which they inferred she did not suffer much." As they drove off, Mrs. Margaret said, very pointedly— "Well, brother, that's the girl for my money—she's the flower of the flock, decidedly." "Penrhyn's wife is the flower of the flock, and Helen resembles her much; but give me my pet lamb, Georgiana, and I ask no more." "I do," said the old lady, with more of sternness than was her wont.

Lady Anne received her daughter by observing, sneeringly, "that she had been made a pretty complete April fool of," followed by the question of "how much of your money have you left?"—to which she replied, "two pounds, fifteen." "Umph! you were quite right to spend nothing, as the sailor wouldn't look at you; give me back the sovereigns, and you may keep the silver." "I will fetch them, mamma," said Georgiana, leaving the room, for oppression teaches cunning, and the poor girl well knew she had her uncle's gift in the same purse with her mother's loan; so, after appearing to take them from a box in which she deposited the notes, she laid them on the table, not having the slightest doubt that the whole would