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GEORGE HERBERT. -- Home.
He got his writing materials, and wrote to the effect, that a
graduate of a Scotch university was prepared to give private lessons
in the classics and mathematics, or even in any of the inferior
branches of education, &c., &c. This he would take to the Times
next day.
As soon as he had done this, Duty lifted up her head, and called
him. He obeyed, and wrote to his mother. Duty called again; and he
wrote, though with much trepidation and humiliation, to David
Elginbrod.
It was a good beginning. He had commenced his London life in doing
what he knew he ought to do. His trepidation in writing to David,
arose in part, it must be confessed, from the strange result of one
of the experiments at Arnstead.
This was his letter. But he sat and meditated a long time before he
began it.
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