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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER XVIII
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Besides, Jane talked of poor Captain Philip as Patrick O'Donnell's brother, whom she was bound to serve in return for Patrick's many services to her; and of how unlike Patrick he was.

Mrs.Lackstraw had been apprehensive about her fancy for Patrick.

Therefore if Captain Philip was unlike him, and strictly a Catholic, according to report, the suspicion of danger dispersed, and she was allowed to enjoy the pleasures of the metropolis as frequently as she chose.

The nursing of a man of Letters, or of the neighbour to him, a beggar in rags, would not have been so tolerated.

Thus we perceive that wits actively awake inside the ring-fence of prepossessions they have erected may lull themselves with their wakefulness.


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