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 Stephen, though thou haft no glas and I no goat, yet we have four fine children, and four tout arms to maintain them and ourelves; this is all our wealth.’ ‘Then Lord have mercy upon us!’ cried Stephen, in abolute depondency; ‘if the cattle are gone, go and drown the four brats, for to maintain them is what I cannot pretend to do.’—‘Why then I will,’ rejoined Jane.

At thee words the friendly father confeor came in. He had litened without, and overheard the whole dialogue; o he took up the word, read Stephen a long ermon upon the text, ‘Money is the root of all evil;’ and after he had ufficiently inculcated the law, he proclaimed the gopel of the rich inheritance of his wife; drew the Italian letter out of his pocket, and interpreted to him, that the paron for the time being was appointed executor of the will, and that he had already afely received the legacy of his departed brother-in-law. §