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factorily, or treated his tenantry with a more 

 tender hand, or have seconded me more heartily 

 in promoting the welfare of the poor, temporal 

 and spiritual. Was there a cottage with ever so 

 uninviting an aspect, dingy and dirty within, and 

 distant no matter how far, with a bed-ridden 

 inmate, old or young ; if I did not confront the 

 countess there, with a kindly voice to cheer, or an 

 open purse to relieve the invalid, I was sure to 

 hear from the lips of the latter, how lately she had 

 been there, as a ministering angel ! And in my 

 constant visits to the school-room, did I as con- 

 stantly behold the ladies H r 1 working as 



patiently, as the master or mistress, in the hardest 

 of all hard work, teaching the young and ignorant. 

 Because many a spendthrift Peer has ruined 

 himself, and disgraced his order, is about as 

 sound an argument to rely upon, that the 

 whole class is rotten (morally speaking), as 

 to involve the commercial world in wholesale 

 condemnation, because not a few have turned 



out the most arrant rogues and impostors. 

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