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But I wander fro

the people e call savages is in all essentials very much the saland every child is educated at the expense of the Country,

but I have not observed that the system results in the production of

ift of Nature, and that

universal mother sheds her favours impartially over all who breathe

No, not quite impartially, perhaps, for the old Greeks and others were

exaeneral rule obtains

To return Mameena was a very able person, as she chanced to be a very

lovely one, a person who, had she been favoured by opportunity, would

doubtless have played the part of a Cleopatra with equal or greater

success, since she shared the beauty and the unscrupulousness of that

famous lady and was, I believe, capable of her passion

I scarcely like to mention the matter since it affects myself, and

the natural vanity of man makes him prone to conclude that he is the

particular object of sole and undying devotion Could he know all the

facts of the case, or cases, probably he would be much undeceived, and

feel about as small as I did when Mameena walked, or rather crawled, out

of the hut (she could even crawl gracefully) Still, to be honest--and