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 now uttered a prayer of repentance and c. J ; perhaps Tetty knows that I prayed for her. Perhaps Tetty is now praying for me. God help me. Thou, God, art merciful, hear my prayers, and enable me to trust in Thee.

We were married almost seventeen years, and have now been parted thirty.

I then read up. from Ex. 36. to Lev. 7. I prayed with Fr. and used the prayer for Good Friday.

29. Good Friday. After a night of great disturbance and solicitude, such as I do not remember, I rose, drank tea, but without eating, and went to Church. I was very composed, and coming home, read Hammond on one of the Psalms for the day 2. I then read Leviticus. Scot 3 came in which hindred me from Church in the afternoon. A kind letter from Gastrel 4. I read on, then went to Evening prayers, and afterwards drank tea with bunns ; then read till I finished Leviticus 24 pages et sup.

To write to Gastrel to morrow. To look again into Hammond.

30. Sat. Visitors Paradise and I think Horseley. Read ii pages of the Bible. I was faint, dined on herrings and potatoes. At Prayers, I think, in the Evening. I wrote to Gastrel, and received a kind letter from Hector. At night Lowe. Pr. 5 with Francis.

31. Easter Day. Read 15 pages of the Bible. Caetera alibi 6.

1 Contrition. tempers on him at the same time.'

2 He wrote from Lichfield on July The Spectator, No. 574. Franklin, 26, 1775: 'When I came I found in a letter written in his old age, Lucy at her book. She had Ham- utters the same thanks.

mond's Commentary on the Psalms 3 Scott had chambers hard by in before her. He is very learned, she the Temple, where Johnson and Bos- says, but there is enough that any- well dined with him on April 10, 1778. body may understand.' Letters, i. 357. Life,m.2,6l.

Addison, quoting Fell's Life of Ham- 4 Mrs. Gastrell of Lichfield. Life,

mond, says : ' As this good man was ii. 470. For Johnson's answer to her

troubled with a complication of dis- letter, see Letters, ii. 248.

tempers, when he had the gout upon 5 Prayed.

him, he used to thank God that it was 6 The other book in which he made

not the stone ; and when he had the the remaining entries is, I fear, lost, stone, that he had not both these dis-

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