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| Lady Marguerite Blakeney |
| Lady Blakeney is the wife of Lord John Blakeney a baronet in ----shire. She is 23 and her esteemed spouse is a trifle over 30. Her late father was Sir William Charleton a knight of the same county. She spends the season in town, but has retired to the country for some respite. She has two sisters, the younger of whom Maria, lives with her whilst the elder Alicia contracted a m�salliance to the parson of a neighbouring parish the hon. Mr Charles Hareton. |