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 John. And, I suppose, the Duchess had not time to take any notice of you, girls?"

"But she did indeed, mamma; you know we were with Lady Sarah, and the Duchess took such care of her, and took her and Miss Grenville to some of the best places in the room, and made us sit there with them, and when she was walking by with the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary, she stopped to talk to us and ask how we liked the music."

"Did she indeed?" said Mrs. Hopkinson, looking extremely pleased, "and so you saw the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary quite close. Only to think, John, of our girls being at a party with their Royal Highnesses. When you came in so suddenly and asked what had become of them, you little thought they were in such company, and all just because everybody is so very good-natured. Only think, there was a Sir Somebody Something, who, it appears, asked your father to stay at his house at Garden Reach, all the time the 'Alacrity' was at Calcutta; and Lady