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there was no broad at the door; and, instead of a venerable elder,

lending sanctity to his office by reason of his age, such as we see in

the effectual institutions of our own national church--the door was kept

by a young man, much more like a writer's whipper-snapper-clerk, than one

qualified to fill that station, which good King David would have

preferred to dwelling in tents of sin However, ere not come to spy

the nakedness of the land, so ent up the outside stairs, and I asked

at him for the plate; "Plate!" says he; "why, it's on the altar!" I

should have known this--the custos on

the altar, but I had forgot; such is the force, you see, of habit, that

the Church of England is not so well refored as ours is from

the abo

forward, when he said to e, "You must pay here" "Very well, wherever it is custouinea Mrs Pringle did the

sae," cried he, with as little decoru at a playhouse "It makes no odds," said I; "keep it

all" Whereupon he was so converted by the h, he thought--but conducted us in, and showed us

the marble monuments, and the French colours that were taken in the war,

till the ti could surpass his discretion