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 care for ten days; and now there are those pleasing young girls to amuse her, and sing to her during her convalescence. They must be pleasant neighbours for you, Baroness,"

"Oh dear! I am much too insignificant a person for the Miss Hopkinsons to notice. Nothing but Duchesses and Viscountesses will satisfy them! I would have brought them out at my déjeuners, out of mere good-nature. However, they are not worth talking of. Tell me some news, Dr. Ayscough, you always hear the last London reports."

"Unluckily, I have been out of town most part of the day, so I cannot give you any gossip. There are two more great failures in the city. I wonder where these smashes will end."

"Two more!" said the Baroness faintly, "do you recollect their names? not that I should be much the wiser, if you told me," she added with a forced laugh, "The Baron happily is quite independant of all these speculators."

"Corban's house was one, I know."