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LADY ANNE GRANARD.
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excellent people they both are, and how glad they will be to see me."

"But what will become of me" said Helen, "without one creature I can look to? If you knew, Mr. Palmer, what I felt in wanting you, and what good your voice did me, you wouldn't, couldn't, think of leaving me at this trying time."

"Well, well; I must give it up, I see. A pretty fool I am, now some honest fellows have taken away the plague of my own daughters, to be cozened by those of a man I never saw in my life, and a woman——"

"We are going to see this moment," said Mrs. Palmer, significantly.