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was not in these quiet shades, I have lamented it. Yet thus it is with the young, they will not be wise from the experience of others. They must feel with their own feet, the thorns in the path of pleasure. They must grasp with their own hand the sharp briers that cling around the objects of their ambition. They must come trusting to the world's broken cistern. They must find the dregs from her cup cleaving in bitterness to their lip. They must feel her spear in their bosom, ere they will believe."

The youth enlarged with emotion on his gratitude to his benefactor. He mentioned the efforts he had made to comply with his desires, and lead a life of contemplative piety, but that these ef-