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M « at on U 4 box mogjjjjfcif of the Unfte , arid b * k * goofrtlfefcVttftfcditJ versation with my comp ^^ Stm . He \? as a very pl « airtrttf toe ¥ ry fcjl few */ As he at first objected to admit a third to the honour of sitting by his Bide , I endeavoured to joke him intb good hem our , and very $ d $ ti ^ 6 ( iccefcded * by laughing at his fun . When * I asked him , tor mtatt ^ whether he was full inside ? he replied , with a knowing- 'toijk ^^ i guess I an *—for I have just had a good dinner . Wer aU ^ aftghttd
heartily . The joke was new to me ; and the others were tiot iti' * f Y 6 $ n to be nice about novelty . Three young men * who were inside , attttis&d thernselvesMky ttbwing very gravely , and with profound reapefct , ttf thti old folks , who were sitting at their doors , or looking out of the window * as we passed ; and who were puzzling their brains , long after we were out of sight , in ' trying to make out to what acquaintance it cotttel * p ' ossibl y ' be that they . were indebted for this piece of unexpected ciVtttar . No one of our Mgri ^ which was so numerous as to fill two stages , bad any reason to co ^ BJwin of its fo rmality . On my arrival , 1 was Well- ' -re * ceived by the lady of the house to which I had been directed * artd-vC
comfortable bed soon made me forget the fatigues of the day/—vol if ; pp . 119 , 120 . in v The following is a pleasant contrast to the illiberality so coil **) monly displayed by Englishmen , in their judgments about AfyiG * rican ' insolence , ' as they call it : . !
' In the evening " , after drinjtegg tea with the family , and cojiyer ^ ing with several agreeable persojfllHko called , as is at Hartford a pd , e | tye-r where the * custom , always ^ MPI ii e afternoon , " I went into a cpnfeC ' tiorier ' s shop in the town to get some ice and was shown mto an ipn ^ room , where I found the master of the house , reclining at his e ^ se upojp a sofa . He made no movement to rise ; nor appeared to ljfae , $ py
notice of my entrance . The competition , it was plain , was ' iUQre / ai ^ pnjj the buyers than the sellers ; and , in fact , as the weather was 9 pp r . ,-sively hot , I stood more in need of his ice than he of my . ii \ ppey While the young woman who assisted was getting what I bad asl } e <} f fpr « 1 entered into conversation with him , and found him very obliging , fttt 4 civil . Perceiving I was an Englishman , he was anxious tp bear J , ^ ^ matters were going on in tlie old country , and his questions were readily answered . A neighbour coming in , our talk contiiiued for Bpnie time ; and when I took my leave he begged I would cal l again a aqu have some more chat with him . Nothing was further from his . tiloughti
than to mortify me by any appearance of slight or inattention ,: no , r vya ^ 1 disappointed at not meeting with that assiduity and obpeqyioujgqeBji which self-interest would have prompted a London tradesman to tlfopjIW before a customer , and which , would have been as little , cpnncct ^ ^^ W real respect as my Haraora friend ' s nonchalance with ruduiiaaa-. ga : -manners/—vol . i . pp . lo » , 1 Q 9 . { J - > ,. ^ ^_ Jiis observations on the servants are in t ^ e ^ a ^^ s p ^ i ^^^ j ^ common character given of them is ,, that thcy ^ re , i 4 l ^!^| ¥ l ^ TWlt Le * tf > His own experience convinced him that tlwopif ^ O / mi
eutiUud % 0 nQ credit . , r - , ,, i jdn ^ l * j * At the hou * e where I boarded I found ihe OWim whtt * WHU 4 < Mt ^ ti >^ pMicukH ^ T . - < aiteit | ivei - I . tediHtlejaccftWon / toa ^ Jbvi ^ rreil ^ m ^ udUllie was kure to observe vvliat I was m Alt »/ lM ^ . / ofnt « iiMPtti ** 3 WJttmkwmt
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/41/
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