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miles on it previously ; and the whole was one hundred and four miles . So firmly had 1 resolved on the enterprise , that my impatience increased -with every minute of his delay : when a circumstance occurred which transferred the arbitration of the affair
to my hands . My uncle took a journey to Ireland ; and being not altogether compunctionless , I shrunk from the idea of taking advantage of his absence ; for , insignificant as I was , there were matters of trust confided to me : it was sufficiently criminal to break the bonds at all ; we agreed , therefore ,, to await his return . Meantime , another accident induced me to abandon the scheme entirely . My father showed me a letter which he had received
from my uncle , containing the following words : — ' Give my love to rny nephew , and tell him , it will yield me pleasure , and him profit , to find all right in his department , on my return . ' I have that letter , a demy sheet , all filled with close writing on three sides , the fourth written on the doubles , and that blessed paragraph before my eyes now , as clearly , and as freshly as in the moment my father put it inlo my hands . I see every creased fold of the paper ,
and the beautiful running text , as distinctly as I did twenty-six years ago ; and I remember too the laying my open palms on my face and eyes in the delicious emotion which the paragraph occasioned ; and I feel again the gentle tap of my father's finger on my hands , while so engaged ; and I hear his voice again , as he says , ' Come , come , that ' s right , but you should ' nt * and he said no more . What a world of joy and bliss burst upon me in that instant . As the letter contained matter of business , I was
despatched to the country-seat of my uncle ' s partner , who , on reading it , relaxed his magisterial brows , ( he was a justice of the peace , ) pointed to the word ' profit , ' and gave me the letter , that I might read the passage again . That * profit' was the least of the letter ' s beauty : I say so without affectation , I felt so then , and 1 have ever felt so . The squire , who , notwithstanding , was a truly benevolent man , thought profit the binding word , the lever to move me . I looked , as I felt , the happiest of mortals , and he did
me the honour to suppose I had been ' drinking something . ' Pish ! he could not understand me . My uncle had never talked of love before to me . From the hall I made all speed to my friend George , to tell him I could not go with him ; he was astonished ! ' No , I could not leave my uncle . ' And how long was this feeling to remain with me ? Nous verrons , —however , the effect was
instantly powerful . I was up early and blithely in the morning : continued a steady industry and attention through the day , had no dreams as I sat at the desk : I examined closely into every trifle connected with my duties , or which was committed to my charge ; performed many of my points twice or thrice over , for the purpose of improving on them ; arranged anil rearranged the divisions of packages ; felt nothing that seemed like weariness or lassitude ; and anticipated my uncle ' s return with joy . He came , met his
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530 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/18/
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