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Rh yes, at least a thousand pounds for every hundred the intended husband of the other can produce. Will any body venture to say, that any comparison can exist between two men so differently situated? or that it is not, in point of fact, a much more important thing, that Glentworth should secure his election, than Arthur James Hales preserve his life." Georgiana burst into tears, which became hysterical sobbing. "Really, mamma, you are very hard on poor Georgiana, who is just come from a long journey, and has of late suffered so much; nobody owes Mr. Glentworth more than I do; nobody loves and honours him more than I do; but I cannot see how," said Mrs. Penrhyn. "You see! how should you see? people whose eyes are blinded by city fogs, city occupations, even city wealth, are not likely to see into any subject clearly." "Yet Mr. Glentworth himself owes to the same medium." "I deny it; Mr. Glentworth was the son of a gentleman, though a younger brother, who was very genteely provided for; he was a bad man, and left his son next to nothing, so he was glad to go into a commercial house rather than starve." "My husband did the same."