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    benevolence , he withheld all assistance from hkr si * ter > though oonvparati ^ ely little aid would have made her -happy bjr eflaurh ^ f the promotion of her husband . . - . , . * ' But when he heard that Captain Norton as well as his lister was dead , and when he learned that their orphan had not ? on

    earthly shelter except the school in which her father had ptaeod her when going on his last fatal expedition , Mr . Green determkftfc } to adopt the helpless girl . Perhaps in his heart of heart * he > Ml that he had been a little twfirm— -firmness was his favourite ftante ' for hfs peculiar modification of self-will ; but , if he felt this * he never gave the feeling utterance . He attributed his kindness ti * the orphan not to any doubt as to the justice of his conduct to her

    parents , but simply to her own helplessness . Perhaps , dn fi&ot , he was really only actuated by pity for tbe child ; for we candva marvellous deal of wrong without disturbance to Our conscience when we call eur obstinacy firmness , and when our desire tofr gratify self-will is exalted iato wise anxiety to prevent others fiom following the silly devices of their own hearts . I really think that , if mten were both able and willing to define their term * , the JEforil

    would lode inost of his victims , and hell would oease to be "pmd with go * d intentions . ¦* But this is only by the way , and I anrait promise you that I will no more digreee from my proper subject * Mr . Green raised his niece from her state of dependence upoii'tito strangers who were already tired of her ,, and who were , of coarse , almost inclined to mingle ashes with the bread they rtofafcotaatlgr gfere to her ; he adopted her as his own ; and with 1 m owft daughter and son she grew up . If I were telling you . a fietidki

    talfe instead of an " owre true one / ' I ought to tell ywi ^ hatwt grew up in beauty and in grace , and that she was far and wmrnf the most perfect feminine personage that ever figured hi

    still a perceptible deformity to the ill work of nature . And , ft * 4 h # g * ew up , the consciousness of this deformity rendered her i < piM and sneering in her temper , and gave to her low forehead mh ! 4 lowering broW a darker and more repulsWe goowlw Out + 6 + \ mk a personage no writer ef fiction would think < # makititf m hiraiajH and ytt Anne Norton was by no meiM without ' »• ipM&Hm ptopgr 4 d heroines n of ii sort . Ktm had t * b * t mm ^ hlmm ^ i ^/ ftmai he hrid th ^ t s 6 tf 4 i « te which mty ilils tor « uUM # hm * frf » iikwrn

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 667, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/39/