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Rh So soon, however, as their arrival was bruited through the country, the pains of memory were exchanged for the troubles of business. Numerous families of great local importance made calls of ceremony or friendship—some even from the immediate environs of Keenborough; and Mr. Granard introduced to Glentworth an attorney of importance in the country, who desired to do him service, and was well able to do it as an agent. This gentleman (for such he was, however strange ladies who class country attorneys with vulgar pettifoggers in fashionable novels may deem the assertion) was the son of a brave officer, but, with several other children, left scantily provided for, and owed his present respectable situation in the first place to the kindness of the late Mr. Granard. His "restless gratitude" had often sought wherein to manifest itself—but in vain till now; but, on the first blush of this affair, he as eagerly sought employment as others sought to give it to him; and, well remembering Mr. Glentworth as a youth whose countenance had, like his own, been he became the more inclined to rejoice in his prosperity, and to forward his views.