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82 with, or than other poor dowagers enjoy, and that of the county in question she literally knew nothing, yet she was staggered into the belief that some unsuspected power, either of wealth or connection, beyond what appeared, had arisen; and she departed with her mind fully occupied in making out the manner in which Lady Anne could dispose of county representations, and heartily wishing she could do as much by boroughs. Lady Anne pursued the idea thus awakened, and her castle-building propensities became so absorbing that she did not hear her daughters enter the room; but when, at length, she perceived Georgiana, she asked her so abruptly, "what made her such a ghost?" that the poor girl burst into tears. "Have you lost your clothes?" cried Lady Anne; "if you have, you may go back to Penrhyn's, for I have no money to buy you any thing; on that you may depend." "I have lost nothing, mamma—nothing that I know of; but the wind has been so very, very high; and Mr. Palmer says, at Lloyd's, there is such a terrible list of accidents—accidents, every body must feel for their fellow-creatures—Mrs. Palmer is very low indeed." "Why, truly, she is in the right to feel for her fellow-creatures by way of variety, for I am sure she has not a single trouble of her own to feel for;