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LADY ANNE GRANARD.
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an indulgence Lord Meersbrook could not refuse, from perceiving how greatly he was already improved, and from being fully aware that, under the circumstances in which she was now placed, Helen, after the arrival of her sisters, would be more than ever engaged—to this it may be added that he had found the pleasure of receiving letters, written in the time borrowed from sleep, and often in affliction, but still "warm from the heart, and faithful to its fires."