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Thus delegated on her mission, as it were by Church and State, Mrs

General, who had always occupied high ground, felt in a condition to

keep it, and began by putting herself up at a very high figure An

interval of some duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs

General At length a county-ith a daughter of fourteen, opened

negotiations with the lady; and as it was a part either of the native

dignity or of the artificial policy of Mrs General (but certainly one

or the other) to coht than

seeking, the er pursued Mrs General until he prevailed upon her to

forhter's mind and manners

The execution of this trust occupied Mrs General about seven years, in

the course of which time she made the tour of Europe, and saw most of

that extensive miscellany of objects which it is essential that all

persons of polite cultivation should see with other people's eyes,

and never with their own When her charge was at length for lady, but likewise of her father, the

as resolved on The er then finding Mrs General both

inconvenient and expensive, became of a sudden almost as much affected