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 "That was unlucky enough," she said; "and pray what money might you have in it?"

Ellis, strongly affected herself, though she had not affected her auditors, by the retrospection of a misfortune which had been so eventful to her of distress, said no more; till she saw some alarm upon the countenance of Miss Arbe, at the idea of a protegée really pennyless; and then, fearing to forfeit her patronage, she mentioned the twenty pounds which she owed to the generous kindness of Lady Aurora Granville.

Miss Arbe now smiled more complacently than ever; and Miss Bydel, straining wide open her large dull eyes, repeated, "Twenty pounds? Good me! has Lady Aurora given you twenty pounds?"

"The money," said Ellis, blushing, "I hope I may one day return: the goodness surpasses all requital."

"Well, if that is the case, we must