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270 travelling chariot bought for immediate convenience on his arrival in town; therefore he accepted a seat in the lumbering but important-looking coach of his nominee, Sir Henry Scriven, who exhibited six noble greys and two outriders, all admirably matched after the fashion of the county, and his lady had soon the satisfaction of seeing that, with their own party, Mr. Granard and his friends, her husband had considerably the longer procession, and, though not so striking in the first instance, yet no way deficient in show and consequence. "How I wish dear mamma could see them! I wonder what she would say?" "She would say that, although we have not one young man equal to Mr. Longueville, perhaps, seeing Captain Hales is so altered, and looks so particularly shocking this morning, that, on the whole, our men cut down the other party all to nothing." "I never saw Glentworth look so well since we were married, it is certain; but I can see a great change since then." "Because you make yourself too anxious: he looks very well—so does Allerton; Meersbrook is