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    * Come here , Maria / said a lively brunette , addressing a little plain orderly person who was examining the contents of a bookcase , ' you have looked at those books a hundred times before , and I can assure you I have made no new additions to them . I want you ' here at , this window . '

    Well , here I am / said Maria , looking into the street . ' Really , rooms for me might be furnished with a skylight , for never by any chance do I go to the window . ' ' Then let me tell you that in consequence you lose a great deal of what I call bird ' s-eye observation . I am going to tell you about a neighbour of mine . How is it that you never quiz your neighbours ? You may be sure that they quiz you . 9 < So let them . '

    ' I do not recollect ever hearing you say anything against anybody . Now that must be all prudence or hypocrisy . ' ' I assure you it is not either . ' ' I told you what your friend Mrs . Treacle said of you the other

    day . Ah ! I see you are piqued at the mere recollection . There is a little malice dilating the pupil of your eye , —a little revenue tiugling in your cheek . Now I am satisfied . I cannot bear your over-good people . Now , if you will but swear and stamp a little , I'll love you for life /

    'My dear Pauline / said Maria , after she had indulged her laughter , ' when compelled to see the wrong side of human nature I sigh , when forced to feel that a friend can be unjust , a relation unkind , I am hurt ; but I do not long surrender myself to sadness from either causes . * Because you despise the causes ; because , with all your seeming humbleness , you have the pride which was reproved in Plato ; you trample upon the pride of the world through a greater pride . There must be some retaliating principle to keep you at the equilibrium you preserve . Apropos , the homoeopathy system is no new discovery in malice , whatever it may be in medicine : minute doses of spite have long proved particularly effective , if

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    improvement the law of social humanity . But , although a smart and ready debater , a good House of Commons' man for the times that are gone , your lordship is not a philosophic statesman , nor ever will be . Sir T . D . Hesketh has written to decline your advice on the part of the Lancashire Conservative clubbists ; as a Reform associator , and one of the public whom you have favoured with your admonitions , I cordially concur in that portion of the baronet ' s reply , and remain , my Lord , &c . &c . July 1 , 1835 . W . J . Fox .

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    SKETCHES OF DOMESTIC LIFE . No . 5 . —The SKNTiMKirrAL .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 445, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/9/