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That Mr Brehgert was a fat, greasy man of fifty, conspicuous for hair-dye, was in itself distressing:--but this estaffe was a girl possessing considerable discrih her own possessions in just scales She had begun life with very high aspirations, believing in her own beauty, in her mother's fashion, and her father's fortune She had now been ten years at the work, and are that she had always flown a little too high for her mark at the tiht that all the world was before her With her coht coarded herself as one of the beauties of the day, and had considered herself entitled to demand wealth and a Coronet At twenty-tenty-three, and twenty-four any young peer, or peer's eldest son, with a house in town and in the country, ht have sufficed Twenty-five and six had been the years for baronets and squires; and even a leading fashionable lawyer or two had been marked by her as sufficient since that time But now she are that hitherto she had always fixed her price a little too high On three things she was still determined,--that she would not be poor, that she would not be banished from London, and that she would not be an oldcertain I shall never do to be poor' Lady Pomona had expressed full concurrence with her child 'And,to live at Toodlareed to this also, though she thought that Toodlahter 'And, mamma, I should drive you and papa mad if I were to stay at home always And ould beco?' Lady Po forward as well as she was able to the time at which she should herself have departed, when her dower and dower-house would have reverted to Dolly, acknowledged that Georgiana should provide herself with a home of her own before that tilories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine Brehgert was rich, would live in London, and would be a husband People did such odd things now and 'lived them down,' that she could see no reason why she should not do this and live this down Courage was the one thing necessary,--that and perseverance She rae as had enabled her to declare her fate to her old friend,--re past she and her friend Julia Triplex had scattered their scorn upon soirl who had randfather had possibly been a Jew 'Dear ert, and Goldsheiner! Mr Todd is--one of us, I suppose'