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I believe there is quite a party assembled there; Lord Ingram, Sir George Lynn, Colonel Dent, and others."

Eshton and her three daughters--very elegant young ladies indeed; and there are the Honourable Blanche and Mary Ingram, most beautiful women, I suppose: indeed I have seen Blanche, six or seven years since, when she was a girl of eighteen.

I never saw a more splendid scene: the ladies were magnificently dressed; most of them--at least most of the younger ones--looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen."

Old Lord Ingram's estates were chiefly entailed, and the eldest son came in for everything almost."

Fairfax of Blanche Ingram; remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;--What!

An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram. It looked a lovely face enough, and when compared with the real head in chalk, the contrast was as great as self-control could desire.