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lunch, a young gentleman who had been 

 sitting behind, came and addressed me in a 

 manner more respectful than men in my po- 

 sition generally look for ; and calling me by 

 name, said he had seen my son yesterday. 

 I understood him to mean my eldest son by 

 my second marriage, who I had very early 

 sent to an excellent school in my own native 

 County. After this introduction he told me 

 that he had received his education at the 

 same academy had been matriculated at 

 Cambridge, and was about to commence his 

 University career as a pensioner of Christ's 

 College. 



" Well," I replied, " if I can be of any ser- 

 vice to you in making your stay agreeable, 

 I hope that you will command me." 



" I thought," he observed, " of doing my- 

 self the pleasure of calling on you." 



" Do/' I added, " as nothing will give me 

 greater pleasure than to hear of my Hamp- 

 shire friends." 



After some few days occupied in 



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