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THE MAN OF FEELING. 227
a fum more than fufficiem for your huf-
band’s difcharge \ the remainder I leave
for his induftry to increafe.” 1 wo’ d
have left the room : each of them laid
hold of one of my hands ; the children
clung to my coat: Oh ! Mr. Harley,
methinks I feel their gentle violence at
this moment j it beats here with delight
inexpreflible j—“ Stay, Sir, faid he, I do
not mean attempting to thank you ; (he
took a pocket-book from under his pil¬
low) let me but know what name I (hall
place here next to Mr. Mountford’s ?—
Sedley- ■■ ■ he writ it down—an Eng-
lifhman too, I prefume.”—“ Hefhall go
to heaven notwithftanding,” faid the boy
who had been our guide. It began to be
too much for me *, 1 fqueezed his hand
that was clafped in mine 4 his wife’s I
prefled to my lips, and burfl: from the
place to give vent to the feelings that la¬
boured within me.