CHAPTER LVIII.
The parting between Georgiana and her kind friends was exceedingly affecting, for the aged have not the faculty which "travels through nor quits us when we die," in any comparison with the young, and at this time the poor girl could not forbear rather to share their evident fears, than give way to those hopes natural to her age. She had heard her mother's words to Mrs. Palmer, but, alas! she could not venture to believe that Lady Anne thought what she said, otherwise such was her opinion of her judgment, that she would have had a comfort in relying upon it, however slight the foundation on which it might rest. "No; mamma said that which suited her whim or her convenience, not that which she knew, or believed to be true." What a conclusion for a young, ingenuous heart to come to respecting its only parent, but how unavoidable in a case like that before us, and how natural was it that she should cling, with a tenacity almost beyond con-
