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" Indeed, my dear," said the good lady, “I was perfectly ignorant of this; we must pay the strictest attention to his temper. I would not have my dear William suffer such a temper to ruin him; and if correc- tion is necessary, I can assure you, not- withstanding my repugnance to it, I would sacrifice every thing rather than suffer him to harbour such a disposition." " William being awake, and hearing the end of this conversation, began to be alarmed. He was naturally a good child, and dotingly fond of his parents. "No" mamma, I will not grieve you, nor trouble you to cor- rect me; it will be very easy for me to de- termine never more to give way to passion; whenever I feel myself inelined to it, I will immediately think on what I have heard to night." The poor fellow was not aware of the dif- ficulties he would meet with in getting the better of a bad habit, which is easily acquir- ed, but cannot be overcome without the most determined resolution and unremitting at- tention. The very next day he experienc- ed this forgetting his resolution of the night before, he suffered the violence of his