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Miss Tenant, and after a cordial shake of the hand, 

 they separated for the night. The doctor, how- 

 ever, did not go to rest, without first enquiring of 

 the landlord who his companion was, and he heard 

 with no small surprize, that it was the then Duke of 

 N whose fondness for sacred music was at least 

 equal to his own, and who indulged it by going in 

 a retired and unostentatious manner to the most 

 celebrated music meetings in the kingdom. He 

 had often heard of Dr. Hunt and his eccentricities, 

 and therefore had no difficulty in discovering who 

 the intruder into his room was. It is but fair to 

 Dr. Hunt, to add, that the duke was so much 

 pleased with his society, and their tastes were so 

 congenial with respect to music, that he kept him 

 by his side during the whole of the meeting, and a 

 friendship was established between them which was 

 only terminated by the duke's death. 



All the good doctor's adventures, however, did 

 not terminate in an equally fortunate manner. It 

 was the ambition of his life to fill up the whole of 

 the large chancel window of his parish church with 

 old stained glass. As he was too poor to purchase 

 it, he begged, borrowed, and purloined it whenever 

 he had an opportunity, and thus by degrees, he 

 left to his parishioners one of the finest windows in 

 the kingdom. Whenever the doctor found a soli- 

 tary piece or two of old glass in the window of some 

 small country church, he endeavoured to procure it 



