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n the ſame village with Mrs. Wilden, lived Robert Hardy, a very honeſt laborious man; he was the beſt huſband in the village, owing to his piety and manly fortitude, which led him to repoſe a firm and conſtant truſt in Providence, and to encounter without fear, and ſupport without repining, whatever difficulties or diſtreſſes he met with in providing for the wants of a numerous family.

His wife was, upon the whole, a well-diſpoſed woman, but ſhe had not equal reſolution with him to bear the evils of poverty. Before they came ſhe tormented herſelf with an idea that they would be inſupportable; and when they actually arrived, ſhe declined the comforts which Providence kindly mixes with the bitterneſs of affliction, and too often envied thoſe in ſuperior ſtations.