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Rh go soon, and she inquired eagerly, "what day he would go?" "I think it will be Monday." "So soon as that? Well, then, since we are alone, I will give you a commission, (the only one I shall trouble you with) seeing I shall be soon there myself, you know. It is to dispose of a diamond ring, which you can manage better than I can, a great deal." As Lady Anne spoke, she opened a cabinet, and took from a little drawer a diamond ring, which she put upon the fore-finger of her right hand, and passed before the lamp. "It is very splendid, indeed," said the Count, "I would not have you sell it; Lady Allerton should have it for a wedding present." At this moment Fanchette appeared with a large fur lined cloak, saying the chair-men could not wait, as there was a rout in the neighbourhood, and she began hastily to draw on that glove of her lady's which was on the table. "It is a monstrous bore, but I am going over the way to meet Sir Edward Hales and his sister; you might as well go with me, and I will tell you about the ring, which, by the way, is still on my finger." To account for its being so situated, we must inform the reader that poor Georgiana, at the time