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80. However, as the things must be had, your best plan is to go over the way, and get Mrs. Palmer to drive Helen to see the boy, which she can pretend to be fond of. If they take my money, it is as little as they can do to contribute to my convenience." Lady Anne's will, once expressed, saved all further trouble, and they were not long in throwing themselves into the arms and upon the pity of Mrs. Palmer, who promised to take one sister and bring back the other sister's clothes on the morrow; after remarking that the weather was very boisterous, she said, emphatically, "really I cannot sleep for thinking of the poor sailors in the Channel: I don't think so much of those who are a long way off, but of the poor creatures on our coast, God help them!" Though believing Mrs. Palmer to be, generally speaking, a perfectly upright woman, neither sister exactly believed her at this time; their impression being that she was thinking of a sailor who was a long way off, and that, as she understood ships and high winds much better than they did, there was much more to fear for the one sailor they were acquainted with than had as yet entered their heads. Mrs. Palmer congratulated them warmly on the marriage of their sister, which she had only learnt the evening before, and rejoiced that the two families were so near home, and talked much of the