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" my most cordial approbation," said Lord Mandeville: "I think Emily Arundel is a very sweet creature—a little too visionary." "Nay, it is that," replied his wife, "which makes her so interesting: she is just a heroine for a romance in five volumes; and I shall never forgive her, if something a little out of the common run of, brought out one season and married the next, without an interesting embarrassment, does not happen to her." "My dear Ellen, beware how you encourage this tendency in your pretty protégée—to invent a life rather than live: with all your penetration, I think you are hardly aware of the strength and intensity of Miss Arundel's character. At fifteen, her poetry of feeling (you