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might have foreseen, being discontinued 

 within the year. 



Now, there were two parties in Oxford 

 concerned in coaches, one of whom I have 

 before spoken of as an old-established 

 country proprietor a man of the first re- 

 spectability and considerable substance, who 

 was looked up to by all the fraternity as an 

 excellent master ; the other an intruder a 

 man of whom few spoke well and for 

 whom I had the greatest dislike, from the 

 vulgar impertinence of his manners, and 

 the evil reports about his tastes. His posi- 

 tion and his chicanery just enabled him to 

 allure the simple and unprincipled to unite 

 with him in opposition to the man whom 

 he could injure and annoy, but not ruin. 

 Such was his vindictive feeling, that he 

 once said, while eating a sheep's heart for 

 his breakfast, and being complimented by 

 one of his parasites on the keenness of 

 his appetite, that he only wished it was 



