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On the other hand, I must plead, for I have an affectionate partiality towards the rector's memory, that he was not vindictive--and some philanthropists have been so; that he was not intolerant--and there is a ruether free froh he would probably have declined to give his body to be burned in any public cause, and was far frooods to feed the poor, he had that charity which has so to very illustrious virtue--he was tender to otherto impute evil He was one of those men, and they are not the co them away fro with the the voice hich they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a yric

Such reat abuses flourished, and have so representatives of the abuses That is a thought which ht comfort us a little under the opposite fact--that it is better soreat reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes

But whatever you may think of Mr Irwine now, if you had rey cob, with his dogs running beside hiood-natured s young companion on the bay mare, you must have felt that, however ill he harmonized with sound theories of the clerical office, he somehow harmonized extreht sunlight, interrupted every now and then by rollingthe slope froables and elms of the rectory predominate over the tiny ashed church They will soon be in the parish of Hayslope; the grey church-tower and village roofs lie before theht, they can just see the chimneys of the Hall Farm