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This sa our former position,

contributed much, I fear, to the equanimity hich we subsequently

bore many of the hardships and humiliations of a life of toil If ever

I have deserved (which has not often been the case, and, I think,

never), but if ever I did deserve to be soundly cuffed by a fellow

inary social

advantage, itto prove myself

ostentatiously his equal and no more It hile I sat beside hiainst his own in the

cornfield, or broke the sarimed hand to

his, at our noontide lunch The poor, proud man should look at both

sides of sympathy like this

The silence which followed upon our sitting down to table grew rather

oppressive; indeed, it was hardly broken by a word, during the first

round of Zenobia's fragrant tea

"I hope," said I, at last, "that our blazing ill be visible a

great way off There is nothing so pleasant and encouraging to a

solitary traveller, on a storloom These ruddypanes cannot fail to cheer the

hearts of all that look at them Are they not ith the