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Though we take the liberty to dissent from many of Lady Anne's dogmas, we certainly agree with her as to the value of employment to those whose minds are in a state of anxiety, or even of actual grief, if in that grade which admits of any exertion. Its great value to Mr. Glentworth will be evident when we remember that, during the years when he was in business, he was perpetually suffering all the hopes and fears consequent on an unhappy attachment, endured throughout that period of existence when sensibility is most acute and passion most ardent; yet, that his mind was by no means overthrown in the manner it was afterwards, when more subdued and better regulated feelings might have been expected by those who glance over the surface. In his case, the boy was parent to the man, in those misfortunes which nurtured feeling at the expence of firmness. The following day, whilst Helen accompanied Mrs. Palmer to Mrs. Penrhyn, Lady Anne took a rapid survey of her own wants for her supper-table, so far as her daughters could supply them.