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Rh exempt from anxiety than the rest, gave secret though suppressed sighs, for the state of her mother. Perfect happiness is not intended to be the lot of imperfect humanity. Let us take what we can get, and be thankful. Every one concerned in this affair arose the next morning in a state of nearly equal solicitude with Mr. Glentworth, who had certainly not a quarter as much as his lady, she being as completely absorbed by it as any one in a state of sanity could well be by such a reason. She had laboured more in the good cause than he was aware, and dipped perhaps farther into his purse, though under Mr. Wigram's auspices, than he might approve, if unsuccessful; therefore every circumstance tended to make it a matter of almost distressing anxiety to her. She, nevertheless, did as her mother bade her, dressed well and looked smilingly, occupying a window canopied by green boughs, supported by green flags, from whence she gave green ribbons in abundance. Lady Allerton, similarly placed and employed, occupied the adjoining one, both ladies supported by gentlemen who had now become so interested in the affair that they exerted themselves as much as if their own life or honour depended upon its success, thus