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TRAVELS IN 
our days^ of hofpltality and all the duties 
which it enjoins ? I have been too frequently 
the objefl of this brotherly love, which offers 
us a family and f iends when at a diftance from 
our own. 1 have always met with this tender- 
nefs and affedion. Every one has been oflB- 
cious to ferve me ; father, mother, children, 
all have ftrove who ihould beftow on me the 
greateft attention : not by thofe gentilities^ 
thofe expreffions, half-formed, but full of hy- 
pocrify and falfliood, which are the portion of 
your well-bred people ; but by that franknefs 
and fmiling good nature which place a man at 
his eafe, and banifli from his mind every idea 
of embarraffment and conftraint. 
Thofe who underftood that I had made a 
dlftant excurfion into the country, and had 
paffed near their habitation, reproached me 
with unkindnefs for not having turned a little 
out of my way to vifit them. They fpoke of 
the pleafure it would have afforded them ; and 
afked, in a tone of concern that w^as affeding, 
how I could prefer fleeping in the open air to a 
comfortable lodging in their houfe, where they 
would have considered it as a duty to render 
my abode as plealant as was in their powder. 
But 
