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ed ascendant over him, she spares him much of the pain which" 

 he must otherwise have suffered froin the occasional violences, 

 of a temper irritated by a fruitless struggle to give utterance to 

 his thoughts and wishes ; disturbed still farther by the vehe- 

 mence of those gestures which he employs to supply the defi- 

 ciency of his signs, and released from that restraint on anger 

 which we experience when we see and hear its excesses disap- 

 proved by our fellow-creatures. 



I am, my dear Sir, with the truest esteem. 



Yours most faithfully, 



J. Mackintosh. 



