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I had never seen any one then, and I have never seen any one since,

who ly expressed to me, in every look and tone, a natural

incapacity to do anything secret and eneral air, and so that at the

same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich I

don't kno this was I became imbued with the notion on that first

occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what

entleuor

about him in the midst of his spirits and briskness, that did not seeth He had not a handso extreainly, as in the days when my knuckles had taken such

liberties with it, but it looked as if it would always be light and

young Whether Mr Trabb's local ould have sat racefully on

him than on me, may be a question; but I am conscious that he carried

off his rather old clothes much better than I carried off my new suit

As he was so communicative, I felt that reserve on my part would be a

bad return unsuited to our years I therefore told hi forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was

I further ht up a blacksmith in a

country place, and knew very little of the ways of politeness, I would

take it as a great kindness in hiive