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take. Like a truly hospitable man, when he found 

 us bent on departing, he set himself to speed our 

 departure. His friend the doctor was at the trouble 

 of repeating to us several tunes, till we had pretty 

 well learned them by rote, some of the most necessary 

 inquiries for food and provender in the vernacular. 

 When we had written these down in the characters, 

 and after the orthography of our mother-tongue, we 

 felt fully prepared for all contingencies. 



How different was the spirit of our departure from 

 that of our entry ! 'Not four-and-twenty hours since 

 we had ridden into the town, unnoticed and un- 

 sheltered; we were now almost pained to say fare- 

 well. So short a time had sufficed to work the 

 difference between desolation and good-fellowship. 

 And though this instance be but of a feebly marked 

 and almost ludicrous difference, you have but to 

 multiply the degrees, and you arrive at a picture of 

 what is every day happening in the course of the 

 long journey on which we are all engaged. A man 

 is stricken and mourning to-day, because he is deso- 

 late; to-morrow he is radiant with joy, because he 

 has found a soul with which he can hold fellowship. 

 The spirit makes music only as the spheres do, in 

 harmony. When I have thought of these things, 

 and felt that they tend to the cultivation of human 

 sympathies, it has seemed to me that I might draw a 

 moral lesson even from the recollection of my " Eide 

 to Magnesia." 



