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The Monikins

CHAPTER XVI
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This happy application of the subject met with decided commendation.

I observed that most of the elderly females put their heads together on the spot, and appeared to be congratulating each other on the prospect of being speedily relieved from their household cares.
Dr.Reasono next spoke of his departure from St.Helena, and of his finally landing in Portugal.

Here, agreeably to his account, he engaged certain Savoyards to act as his couriers and guides during a tour he intended to make through Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France, etc., etc., etc.

I listened with admiration.

Never before had I so lively a perception of the vast difference that is effected in our views of matters and things, by the agency of an active philosophy, as was now furnished by the narrative of the speaker.


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