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ifeegj and I will try and win thy love ; for it is worth some trouble to win the love of a creature so full of gratitude , and attachment as thou art . ' Sancho was not insensible to the kindness of his sympathetic protector , and soon learned to lie at his feet with an . expression of devotion in his watery eyes , as if to love some one being exclusively
was a necessity of his nature—the fir $ t condition of liis existen&e . v ^ bqut twelve month s after thi s event , two circumstances occurred which made a great change in the feelings and views of Dr . Drennan * A work , which with much labour he had giv ^ n to the public * jy as mo £ t favourably received , and a somewhat considerable inde * pendence was bequeathed to him .
How often do points of character lie unperceived till s . om& peculiar circumstances , calculated to excite , call them forth ! Fame apd fortune coming together to Dr . Drennan , as they did , mutually heightened and strengthened each other . Vanity , and the desire of social consideration , awakened in the hitherto apparently humble 4 | i ^ retiring mind of the doctor . The obscure lodging in which he had dwelt undisturbed and undisturbing so long that the spiders considered themselves not tenants at will , but tenants in
Common , was speedily vacated for a large house ; and instead of tlje chance attendance of a slatternly girl , the daughter of the little shopkeeper whose garret he had occupied , he engaged two or three servants , resolving to draw round him a circle of admiring friends . r j ^ ll t } n ' s , which in speculation and preparation had appeared so pleasant , proved far otherwise in the realization . Old habits are
|^ pt ga ^ ily changed , nor new ones readily acquired . Absence of rhma , the consequence of abstract studies and social isolation , was ^ 3 constant a characteristic of the doctor , when a householder , as it jy . d %$ &p . when he was a garreteer . Many , as soon as he was disposed to lionize , came to see him , and all the more readily , as report , ^ ififiae him more of a golden lio n than he really was . But ne spoil discovered that servants and visiters disturbed his quiet and
ms studies more than they ministered to his comfort or his vanity . J ^ y a singular effort of social sagacity , or rather observation , the clo ^ tpr ^ , fter a time saw what appeared a remedy for all his annoytcesj ; l } e resolved , as most others of his neighbours had done ^ ijEf . lfe . Uatp himself a wife ; that is , ( acting with the views and tne ieelinwnicn tne aoctor aia rvant
irpm gs , j an upper se , wao , tj | i | lJ ^ € { ev 0 ry other servant , should have no power of obtaining ^ fetai ^ ng , or possessing any independent property , nor any power fj |^ it ti ^ g her service , however unsuited to her it might loe , unless M-k ^ offin and the grave , Jpr . Drejanan had all the same amiability * and some of the genius , of the imrnortal Goldsiaith ; but he partook , al so ^ of the same want &F perception of tne improvements possible an 4 essential to the |^ y | ^ t «) T . ^ . , He looked pn women with tfys kindly eye with which ^ 3499 ked on aft ^ e ^ re ^ ^ but ^ ev ^ dreamed that a capacity
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2 ^ Sketches of Amnestic Life .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1835, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2644/page/2/
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