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96 Mr. Delawarr.–"Ah! you resemble those political economists who, if they see a paragraph in the paper one day rejoicing over the country's prosperity, examine its columns the see what new tax is to be suggested." Lady Mandeville.–"On grounds of utility I object to false impression being made on Miss Arundel's mind; it is her destiny to be miserable, and I were no true friend did not act the part of a friend, and impress upon her the disagreeable necessity." Mr. Morland.–"Then you would join in the prayer of the Indian heroine, in the Prairie, 'Let not my child be a girl, for very sorrowful is the lot of woman?'" Lady Mandeville.–"Most devoutly. Allow me to revise Mr. Morland's picture, and, for Jeanne qui rit, give the far truer likeness of Jeanne qui pleure. I will pass over the days of pap and petting, red shoes and blue sash, as being that only period when any thing of equality subsists between the sexes; and pass on to the time when all girls are awkward, and most of them ugly—days of back-boards and collars, red elbows, French, Italian, musical and