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Rh to no one—All the world diclaim me, except my mother—and there again, I have to thank my father.

How o?

Becaue I am an illegitimate on.—My educed mother has brought me up in patient miery. Indutry enabled her to give me an education; but the days of my youth commenced with hardhip, orrow, and danger.—My companions lived happy around me, and had a pleaing propect in their view, while bread and water only were my food, and no hopes joined to weeten it. But my father felt not that!

He touches my heart.

After five years’ abence from my mother, I returned this very day, and found her dying in the treets for want—Not even a hut to helter her, or a pallet of traw—But my father, he feels not that! He lives in a palace, leeps on the oftet down, enjoys all the luxuries of the great; and when he dies, a funeral ermon will praie his great benevolence, his Chritian charities.

What is your father’s name?

—He took advantage of an innocent young woman, gained her affection by flattery and fale promies; gave life to an unfortunate being, who was on the point of murdering his father. Rh