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THE MAN OF FEELING. 5
that might once have been well account¬
ed handfome; its features were manly
and ftriking, and a certain dignity re-
fided on his eyebrows, which were the
largeft I remember to have feen. His
perfon was tall and well-made but the
indolence of his nature had now inclined
it to corpulency.
His remarks were few, and made only
to his familiar friends ; but they were
fuch as the world might have heard with
veneration : and his heart, uncorrupted
by its ways, was ever warm in the caufe
of virtue and his friends.
He is now forgotten and gone! The
laft time I was at Silton-hall, I faw his
chair ftand in its corner by the fire-fide 5
there was an additional culhion on it,
and it was occupied by my young lady’s
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