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by no means a pleasta * spediueif tt&Gto * sftfifc * *** "& * & quite willing to admit ; but « vrls 0 tt ;' c ^ ' ^^^ tey ^^ - ^ b ^ U afcarf I jfertuada you to remember that all of human kilia kre indeed ; tj ^ we listen always to justice and never to passiota , to be sympathized w $ th even while they are to be blamed ? ' ri
'I know , I know / said George , ' your old story about " creatures of circumstance / ' " faulty education /' . " mistaken rather than wicked / ' and all the rest of that queer philosophy whickyou think so fine , and which I so sincerely and entirely detest , ' « € prove mjr faith in my philosophy , you know , Gedrge , by listening to your diatribes against it , not only without anger , but with that commiserating indulgence which is due to yedr youth and inexperience . '
* My youth ! come , I admire that ! you being born in January of the year eighteen hundred and three , and I in the Jirst week of the March of the same year !' * Well , I suppose I must waive the question of seniority , ; but I will still maintain that poor Miss Green ' *
Say what you please about her , I maintain that she is an evilspeaking , lying , and slandering old person ; a locomotive pesti ~ lence ; a moral sirocco ; a creature thoroughly hateful , and invariably hating . ' .-. ¦ . " - Do you know her history V
' ' Not I ; I only know that she is an embodied and visible indigestion , and that nothing can excuse , far less justify , such concentrated and blasting slander as that which she utters whenever she sees ill to speak . But perhaps her history is more diverting than her conversation ?'
'It is , at least , more instructive . Her father was quite the wealthiest man in this county ; liberal , in the very best . sense of that word , but with one exception ; he was obstinately bent upon what he called " having his own way . "' f wherefore not , thou particular fellow * thoii m ^ t j ^ wciap of moral philosophers , wherefore not ? A rich man anxious to do
good with his wealth may surely claim the right to do that good in his own way . Mr . Green was a very capita } fellow , I dare swear for him . ' * Why , to say the truth , if you are a good hater *— -and hi ifeuft respect Samuel the Surly would have pronounced vow perfe « & 4 ybu have no inconsiderable talent at liking with as little ^ butfAn-p tiotl as you hate withaL' ' ; ' Ijuju I ,
' Afe , fdr instance , my determined propensity to the society'tftfc certain Harry Herbert , all his odd notions , out-of-theMtvay theefJe ! and' most prolix and incomprehensible lectures to the cdikuwy ftdWithstandingw Ha 1 " I havethee on the hipP" / ar , mt [ uioo ' " Be it so . But to return to Mr »< 3 ftte ! k B * tWly w « tf < % odbittd felkmv aa vou have termed kim > iirtirn r rtiim rnMnr tHi ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/37/
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