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Sit down at this table, and begin your task; and take good care to copy correctly the periods, the pauses, and the notes of admiration. Eloquence is wonderfully assisted in the reading by those little auxiliaries.

I will, my Lord.

And when you come to any very striking expressions, be sure to draw a line under them—so, (showing him how.) that the reader may do them justice, with a correspondent emphasis and elevation of voice.

Certainly, my Lord: I shall mark all such passages as your Lordship may be pleased to point out.

I should like you to mark also some passages of your own selecting: for an unlearned person