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Georgiana Longestaffe had now been staying with the Melard to the London season had not much improved Her brother had troubled her no further, and her family at Caversham had not, as far as she are, taken any notice of Dolly's interference Twice a week she received a cold, dull letter from her mother,--such letters as she had been accustomed to receive when away fro to fill her sheet with sos, with some bit of scandal such as she would have repeated for herof it,-- had there been nothing painful in the nature of her sojourn in London Of the Melmottes she hardly spoke She did not say that she was taken to the houses in which it was her a so But she did not announce her own disappointment She had chosen to co at Caversham, and she would not declare her own failure 'I hope they are kind to you,' Lady Poiana did not tell her mother whether the Melmottes were kind or unkind

In truth, her 'season' was a very unpleasant season Hershe had already known The house in Bruton Street had never been very bright, but the appendages of life there had been of a sort which was not known in the gorgeous mansion in Grosvenor Square It had been full of books and little toys and those thousand trifling household gods which are accumulated in years, and which in their accumulation suit themselves to the taste of their owners In Grosvenor Square there were no Lares;--no toys, no books, nothing but gold and grandeur, poestaffe life had not been an easy, natural, or intellectual life; but the Melestaffe She had, however, come prepared to suffer much, and was endoith considerable power of endurance in pursuit of her own objects Having willed to co at Caversham, she fortified herself to suffer much Could she have ridden in the park at mid-day in desirable coht, she would have borne the rest, bad as it ht have been But it was not so She had her horse, but could with difficulty get any proper co with one of the Priirls,--and old Primero would accompany them, or perhaps a brother Primero, or occasionally her own father And then, when once out, she would be surrounded by a cloud of younground and round the saround with the same companions and with the smallest atte and had satisfied her Noith difficulty that she could get any cavalier such as the laws of society deiana Longestaffe, had hitherto endured and snubbed She was just allowed to join theed even to ask for that assistance