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 "The good old woman took us through the garden, which was decked in its greatest autumnal splendor, and was loaded with berries and fruits; and as we were walking along, with a side glance at me, she said that the Assessor never allowed children in his garden; 'but sometimes,' she added, 'he lets one or the other slip in, but not before he has looked at him and has said—"Let the child pass, he will not take anything without leave,' and he has never made a mistake. This he sees from their eyes'"

It was in London that Swedenborg's last days were passed, in the house of Richard Shearsmith, a respectable wig-maker, with whom he had lived two years during a previous stay in that city. He liked this quiet home because he found peace and harmony there, while, according to Mr. Shearsmith, his lodger was "a blessing to the house, for they had harmony and good business while he was with them." He added that "to a good man, like Swedenborg, every day of his life is a Sabbath," and that "to the last day of his life he always conducted himself in the most rational, prudent, pious, and Christian-like