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a good objection may be taken and answered, 

 too ; and which we must not omit : but it was not 

 because I had said my say out, that I came to a 

 pause ; but rather because I felt that there was still 

 so much unsaid, and I am too tired to say it now, 

 and you to listen to it, I should think. Come, it 's 

 no use denying it. We must adjourn. Besides, I 

 want to -hear your objections. I know they '11 rise 

 thick and threefold, when you've left me. When 

 shall I hear them; to-morrow?" 



"To-morrow let it be with all my heart ! I doubt 

 you've given me a bad nightcap, though! When I 

 get a subject of this sort into my head, it sings in 

 my ears half the night : and when at last I do go to 

 sleep, I dream of it till I 'wake again. Well! 'In 

 for a penny,' as they say : so I shall be glad to hear 

 it out. Maybe you'll finish it to-morrow. I don't 

 think I shall ever look at a plow again without 

 thinking of you ! " 



And Mr. Greening took his departure ; not more 

 busily impregnated with a new subject than he left 

 me with an old one : for of all the powerful stimu- 

 lants to deeper thought upon a subject in your own 

 mind, what so powerful as the first sustained eifort 

 to develop your antecedent conceptions upon it by 

 the slow and detailed process of conversation, and 



