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    sfi ^ £ yothers had kept th eir eyelids open by the amusement of pinchings and coymterv ^ xi cYai ^ s beneath and behind each other ' s stools ; and even M&ry- ^—tBe Wtient uncomplaining Mary , stretched out her neck every time a page was tifrned over * in the hope of seeing the welcome blank that would marV the termination of one sermon out of the many preached in vain .

    . And there upon their stools the poor little sufferers had been seated ror hours , first to be catechised , then to be lectured , and afterwards to be read to , without one single word , or look , or tone calculated to reach the well-spring of an infant ' s feelings , or foster the first fruits of an opening mind .

    u First in importance was James Grey , the oldest son , whose complexion , hair , and features bore a strong" resemblance to those of his father ; but that greater pliability of muscle enabled him to smile as well ak look serious , just as occasion required . Some people thought it a 9 iiii 3 ter smile , and certainly it was one that seldom ripened into a hearty It to be in

    latij ^ h . seemed a smile having a purpose it , rather than arising from the natural gaiety of a lierht , free spirit . ^ yy lth all his strict sense of propriety , his inborn desire to be , to do , ana especiall y to look , the thing most approved in society , James Grey && £ Hot able , throughout the whole of his father ' s sabbath readings , to snafce off the influence of the leaden god ; but the efforts he made to

    recover himself before detection , after e ;\ ch inadvertent nod— -to rear himself up yet more majestically on his stool—thongh they sometimes endangered his person by a backward inclination , were truly worthy of imitation by his juniors , and such as they ought to have been proud to 8 & £ ttn example of in their elder brother . ? put wholly regardless of other people ' s merits , as well as unambitious

    to support his own , George Grey , the next in age , sat reeling to and fro , riow . tms "way , then that ; his heavy eyelids raised only for the critical moment when most in danger of losing his equilibrium , or when his Krmfter James , in the intervals of his own slumbers , twitched his jacket , jerteel his elbow , or forcibly stuck a large pin into his round massy shoulders . Then it was that George endeavoured to maintain his oftento for but his

    di ^ puted title sensibility ; touch person , and he wrs all alive—touch it with ever so minute a sense of pain , and if so situated that he dared not kick or bellow , the big tears used to stand in his large grey eyes , while his thick lips protruded in the silent petulance of a sullen , ftjpw , deep-seated rage . be in

    ^ Nothi ng can more perfect its way than these portraits of tbe two brothers . Their characters are preserved throughout the Bftoryv and they eiul exactly as they should do—James , a plausi-W * f hypocritical , thriving lawyer—George , a brutish , drunken fiAtaer . But we must proceed with the family group : —

    ';¦ ' *' As if in contrast with the gross bodily subsiuncc of George , his ti&sjteriMerry had seated herself beside him ; her earnest , thoughtful eyes , tttalb Waked too spiritual for sleep , fixed latently upon her father ' s countttUUttg , h ^ r slender figure , bending from the wearinesa neceBsarily tfic 4 IttptiUtyi&g her long and patient endurance < yf this unnatural restraint , * i& ktt attention , whenever it wandered from the subject of her father ' s

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    41 * Homey or > The Iron Rule .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/24/