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their opinion^ — before it is asked or wished. 

 On the other hand, there scarcely can be a 

 greater hinderance to a youth's taking his place 

 respectably in society, than that needless and 

 foolish timidity, which prevents his making 

 proper use of the information with which his 

 mind, by the skill of his instructors and his 

 own diligence, has been perhaps adequately 

 stored. Thus, a lad sometimes appears what 

 he is not — ignorant or stupid, — because he is 

 abashed and ashamed to speak even before his 

 friends. 



I then asked another question. Pray, is 

 there any thing concerning this forest in par- 

 ticular, which you remember to have read in 

 the History of England ?" 



I think," said Frederick, after a moment's 

 pause, that William Rufus was killed in it." 

 You are right. William Rufus was the 



