Mr. Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney. Indeed nothing is more unjust than to carry our prejudices against a profeffion into private life, and to borrow our idea of a man from our opinion of his calling. Habit, it is true, leffens the horror of those actions which the profeffion makes neceffary, and confequently habitual; but in all other inftances, nature works in men of all profeffions alike; nay, perhaps, even more strongly with those who give her, as it were, a holiday, when they are following their ordinary business. A butcher, I make no doubt, would feelcompunction at the flaughter of a fine horfe; and though a furgeon can conceive no pain in cutting off a limb, I have known him compaffionate a man in a fit of the gout. The common hangman, who has stretched the necks of hundreds, is known to have trembled at his first operation on a head: and the very profeffors of human-blood-fhedding, who in their trade of war, butcher thousands, not only of their fellow profeffors, but often of women and children without remorse; even these, I fay, in times of peace, when drums and trumpets are laid afide, often lay aside all their ferocity, and become very gentle members of civil fociety. In the fame manner an attorney may feel all the miferies and diftreffes of his fellow creatures, provided he happens not to be concerned against them. دو unacquainted with the very black colors in which he had been reprefented to Mr. Allworthy; and as to other matters he did not fhow them in the most disadvantageous light: for though he was unwilling to caft any blame on his former friend and patron, yet he was not very defirous of heaping too much upon himself. Dowling therefore obferved, and not without reafon, that very ill offices must have been done him by fome body: For certainly," cries he, "the Squire would ne» ver have difinherited you only for a few faults, which any young gentleman might have committed. Indeed, I cannot properly fay difinherited for, to be fure, by law you cannot claim as heir. That's certain; that no body need ,, go to counsel for. Yet when a gentleman had in a manner adopted you thus as his own fon, » you might reasonably have expected fome very confiderable part, if not the whole; nay, if you had expected the whole, I fhould not have blamed you: for certainly all men are for getting as much as they can, and they are not to be blamed on that account.' " دو دو دو رو دو دو دو : upon "Indeed you wrong me, faid Jones, "I fhould have been contented with very little: I never had any view Mr. Allworthy's for,, tune; nay, I believe, I may truly fay, I never ,, once confidered what he could or might give This I folemnly declare, if he had done a prejudice to his nephew in my favor, I would have undone it again. I had rather enjoy my >> me. دو ❞ own mind than the fortune of another man. 1 دو رو دو כל دو What is the poor pride arifing from a magnifi„cent house, a numerous equipage, a fplendid table, and from all the other advantages or ap»pearances of fortune, compared to the warm, ,, folid content, the fwelling fatisfaction, the thrilling transports, and the exulting triumphs, which a good mind enjoys, in the contemplation of a generous, virtuous, noble, benevolent ,, action? I envy not Blifil in the profpect of his wealth; nor fhall I envy him in the poffeffion of it. I would not think myself a rascal half an hour, ,, to exchange fituations. I believe, indeed, Mr. Blifil fufpected me of the views you mention; and I suppose these fufpicions, as they arose from the baseness of his own heart, so they occafioned his baseness to me. But, I thank Heaven, I know, I feel, — I feel my innocence, my friend; and I would not part with that feeling for the For as long as I know I have never done, or even defigned an injury to any being whatever, " دو دو world و Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Arbor aftiva recreatur aura, Quod latus mundi nebula, malusque Pone, fub curru nimium propinqui Solis in terra domibus negata; Dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo, *Place me where never fummer breeze Unbinds the glebe, or warms the trees; He then filled a bumper of wine, and drank it off to the health of his dear Lalage; and filling Dowling's glafs likewise up to the brim, infifted on his pledging him. "Why then here's Mifs Lalage's „ health, with all my heart, cries Dowling. I have heard her toafted often, I protest, though I never faw her; but they fay fhe's extremely handfome." دو دو دو Though the Latin was not the only part of this fpeech which Dowling did not perfectly understand, yet there was fomewhat in it, that made a very ftrong impreffion upon him. And though he endeavoured by winking, nodding, fneering, and grinning, to hide the impreffion from Jones, (for we are as often afhamed of thinking right as of thinking wrong) it is certain he fecretly approved as much of his fentiments as he understood, and really felt a very strong impulse of compaffion for him. But we may poffibly take fome other opportunity of commenting upon this, especially if we should happen to meet Mr. Dowling any Where ever-lowering clouds appear, And angry Jove deforms th' inclement year. Place me beneath the burning ray, Love and the nymph shall charm my toils, The nymph who fweetly speaks, and fweetly fmiles. Mr. Francis. more in the courfe of our History. At present, we are obliged to take our leave of that gentleman a little abruptly, in imitation of Mr. Jones; who was no fooner informed, by Partridge, that his horfes were ready, than he depofited his reckoning, wifhed his companion a good night, mounted, and fet forward towards Coventry, tho' the night was dark, and it just then began to rain very hard. CHAP. X I. The Difafters which befel Jones for Coventry; with the fage tridge. on his Departure Remarks of Par No road can be plainer than that from the place where they now were to Coventry; and though neither Jones, nor Partridge, nor the guide, had ever travelled it before, it would have been almost impoffible to have miffed their way, had it not been for the two reafons mentioned in the conclufion of the laft Chapter. These two circumftances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much lefs frequented track, and after riding full fix miles, inftead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves ftill in a very dirty lane, where they faw nọ |