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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