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    rood of the icy grotm < T oil which we tirer& trdveAliitg , therefore 1 put th £ tfffair < 6 f eatihg and dri ^ kitig cbhttfit ^ hc ^ iwo hife hands . 4 There i # xio better house in the whole dokJntry : iSHbfce and substantial are the viands it dispenses ; and y 6 ii Will smack your lips in ecstasy lit various and excellent wines whitfh MH range before you , arid Solicit an invitation down your throa , t . They kiio # how to live where we are going . ' These commendations elicited from me further inquiry , for I saw no evidences or marks of a Substantial and well-equipped hotel , ' There is the house—ybu see it propping the church , or the church props it ; it is a reciprocity of

    propping . The house to which he directed my attention , was the dwelling of the brotherhood who officiated in the church , and administered to the spiritual wants of the surrounding inhabitants . My friend was a good Catholic : but as I was a heretic , and also a- stranger to them , a twinge of propriety and decorum came over me : but he was intimately acquainted with them , and I should

    be as readily and as cordiall y welcome as himself ; he was confident they would be about their dinner then . ' In a few minutes more we were in the presence of four kindly looking men , none of whom wore the garb of any special order of priesthood . Their appearances and looks spoke ease , content , and intelligence . We were received with a truly earnest but quiet welcome : my companion was a man well known to them , and his rank and station obtained

    for me attention and deference , at which I felt rather embarrassed . They assisted in developing us of our wrappings ; but to their dinner , on which they were busily engaged when we entered , they would not allow us to sit down , — It was disjointed , broken , and unworthy of us , '—though I cast my longing eye on substantiate enough for a dozen hungry fellows : but ' we should take a small portion , a mouthful , to sustain us till a fresh and entire dinner 4

    was prepared / Our assurances that what we saw was excellent , &c . ' were unaccepted : ' a proper dinner we must have . ' On this arrangement we collected civility and patience to rest . Nor was this patience put to any severity of trial , for in about half an hour abundance and variety , both delicate and solid , smoked under our fascinated olfactories . After a blessing , and pausing till we

    were fairl y engaged on our agreeable exercise , our kind hosts apologized for leaving us to ourselves—* their duties require them elsewhere . * They left us with a single attendant , * who would readily execute our orders , and supply any thing which happened to be deficient . ' He entered immediately on their quitting the

    room . Too much occupied to allow of space for converse , except an interjection now arid then , we were silent , and I thought I heard a suppressed sigh , almost a groan : it was repeated , and at the same moment , a sound like the collision of hands struck my ear . 1 looked im , the direction of the sound , and to my amaiement our attendant was on his knees , opposite to nae , and beyond my companion , whose hack being towards the mar * , he of course aid »<*

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    796 i Autobiography of Pel ,. Vtrjitike .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 796, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/50/