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    of this world little affects it . Oh those two rash men ! So then ! one really died without confession . He must have had some sins ; and who can tell what they were ! and , without knowing what they were , who can pray for his pardon . I would say a mass gratis for the repose of his oul

    s , if l could venture to recommend the matter , in my utter ignorance of the circumstances . And perhaps he has friends who would take it ill to have a mass said gratis for him , like a beggar , though it appears he was one . For few people like to have it known that their relatives were beggars . Aurora would rather read the great nobleman of Bergamo than Messer Ludovico . He , I find , is slippery in some places , and much fitter for married women than

    for girls , that must be settled . His excellency may light upon it northward ; he must be best known nearest his birth-place . Had I been at Bologna the fatal event would not have happened ; at least the worst of it . The poor creature mi g ht have had his stabs , but had he writhed , like a snake upon a dung-fork under them , I would have plucked his

    confession from him , and have given him absolution and unction . He should not have gonei before his nicker with as dry a stun as a polecat left a month in a trap ! Augusta has finished the garters ^ and .. gu ^ sa what ! My paper is wet witli the overflowing of

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    No . 382—IV . X

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    High and Low Life in Italy . 257

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    my heart . I enjoy the ilieffable welfare and supreme good of declaring myself 8 f cy

    MR STIVERS TO THE PAHROCO SPINEI / LA . Parson , my master is in a thunderstorm at the overflowings of your heart . Must I let it out ? he wants to write a book . A man to leave Italy and not to write a book about it ! Was ever such a thipg heard of ? He will nevfer show his face again in Cheapside , and must keep to the Haymarket , unless you collect for him all the little pieces of history that are flying about the country . Ghosts are going out of fashion : murderers keep up their heads : poisons are rather

    stale : monks and priests with daggers lie in the ale-house fire-side corners : girls that are run away with have many admirers : houses burnt we Have enough at home . Beat about , beat about , and try to fihii what will take . Now for yc ^ ur comfort , or what he calls l * ftcouragement , let me tell ytni # that he has desired his banker in Florence to find out that Bergamo nobleman , arid buy him , cost what he may . And he will send you the English books for you to learn and teach with . But nothing oJF these or others , excepting thei Bergamo chap , until you foirward four ounces at least of closely written materials . IjoT that case , you will alsojiftye twenty Francescani , and i barrel of right good London

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/32/