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a gaiety & ease peculiar to himself, and then at::tended by his Father & Sister walked into anotherroom where his Mother was playing at Cards, toexperience another Meeting, and undergo a repetirepeti::titiontion of pleasure, surprise, & Explanations. Whilethese were paſsing, Camilla eager to communicate all she felt to some one who would attend to her, returned to Catherine, & seating herself by her, im::mediately began – "Well, did you ever know anything so delightful as this? But it alwaysis so; I never go to a Ball in my Life but what something or other happens unexpectedly that isquite charming!"

"A Ball replied Kitty, seems to be a most eventfulthing to you –"

"Oh! Lord, it is indeed – But only think of my bro::ther's returning so suddenly – and how shocking a thing it is that has brought him over! I neverheard any thing so dreadful –!"

"What is it pray that has occasioned his leaving France? I am sorry to find that it is a melan::choly event."

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