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"Oh! Yes Ma'am, the most delightful Letter you ever heard of. She sends me a long account of thenew Regency walking dreſs Pierrot Lady Susan has given her, and it isso beautiful that I am quite dieing with envy for it."

"Well, I am prodigiously happy to hear such pleas::ing news of my young freind; I have a high re::gard for Augusta, and most sincerely partakein the general Joy on the occasion. But does shesay nothing else? it seemed to be a long LetterAre they to be at Scarborough?"

"Oh, Lord, she never once mentions it, now I recollect it; and I entirely forgot to ask her when I wrotelast. She says nothing indeed except about the Regency Pierrot."

"She must write well thought Kitty, to make along Letter upon a Bonnet & Peliſse Jacket and petticoat." She thenleft the room tired of listening to a conversationwhich tho'though it might have diverted her had shebeen well, served only to fatigue and depreſsher, whilein pain. Happy was it for her, when the hour ofdreſsing came, for Camilla satisfied with beingsurrounded by her Mother and half the Maids inthe House did not want her aſsistance, and was

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