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i9o THE MAN OF FEELING.
“ I am forry, replied Harley, that there
is fo much truth in what you fay ; but
however the general current of opinion
may point, the feelings are not yet loft
that applaud benevolence, and cenfure in¬
humanity. Let us endeavour to ftrengthen
them in ourfelves and we who live fe-
queftered from the noife of the multitude,
have better opportunities of liftening un-
difturbed to their voice.”
They now approached the little dwell¬
ing of Edwards. A maid-fervant whom
he had hired to ailift him in caring for his
grandchildren, met them a little way
from the houfe : ^ There is a young lady
within with the children,” faid (he. Ed¬
wards exprefled his furprife at the vifit:
it was however not the lefs true j and wo
mean to account for it.
This young lady then was no other than
fvfifs Walton. She had heard the old man’s
hiftory