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 recollect that he had promised to pay Wynne, the magistrate, a visit that evening. Low spirits and gloomy thoughts were very much his aversion: when they attacked him he usually found means to make them march in double-quick time. The hymn followed him faintly as he crossed the fields: he hastened his customary sharp pace, that he might get beyond its reach.

"Now sing a song—a Scottish song," suggested Caroline, when the hymn was over,—Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon.

Again Mrs. Pryor obeyed, or essayed to obey. At