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Rh or Mr. Morland.—"Or Emily.—"My favourite flowers are violets— Edward Lorraine.—"Whether it is that your gardener has not been here, with his 'cruel curtailments,' like Mr. Hume,—but how very luxuriant is the growth of this myrtle! it is Lady Mandeville.—"Apropos to myrtle; is there any truth in the report that Lord Merton is about to marry Miss Dacre?" Here Emily coloured the least in the world. A woman has always a kind of sentimental consciousness about any one who has ever made love to her. I often think she pities the man she refuses, more perhaps than his case quite requires. Well, it ought to be a comfort that a person is not so unhappy as we suppose.