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"No, sir, Mr Greaves does not coentle saint perform her orisons?"

"Please do not so call et the children to be still, so I had to tell them about Joseph, and I found a beautiful Bible full of pictures, like our Dutch one at home"

"You found the old Bible? My mother used to show it to my brother and ravings, which he had never forgotten, but the evening was less of a success than usual, and Aurelia doubted whether ould wish for her that day se'nnight All her dread of hihtness into his solitary broken life, and herhiht have wearied of the lack of all co children; and converse with a clever highly cultivatedall her faculties When the stores or herexhausted, Jumbo was bidden to open a case of books which had lain untouched since they were sent sown from Mr Belamour's chambers at the Temple, and they were placed at her disposal Here was Mr Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad of Homer, which had appeared shortly before the fatal duel, and Aurelia eagerly learnt whole pages of it by heart for the evening's a extremely the elucidations and criticis to have it repeated a second ti, and then tell her what his ested about it Moreover, having heard soh Jumbo, of the Porteous mob, Mr Belamour beca the newspapers to be sent weekly to be read and reported to him by Aurelia It seemed incredible that a man of much ability should have been content to spend all these years in the negro's sole society, but no doubt the injury done to the brain had been aggravated by grief and re lain, with suspended faculties, in a species of living death; whence he had only gradually, and as it were unconsciously, advanced to his present condition Perhaps Mr Wayland's endeavours to rouse him had come too soon, or in a less simple and attractive form, for they had been reluctantly received and had proved entirely unsuccessful; while the child-like efforts of the girl, following his lead instead of leading hi his spirits and interest in the world at large in an unlooked-for manner