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"I do not know if Mr. Heber's threat could be serious, but it frightened me, and I know that I shall be safe on the road to Carthage if you take me. Go, get your horses and take me away yourself." He looked at her pitifully, slipping into the style of his religious moods.
Listen and chatted with her till it was time to go and dine at the Athenaeum. Then I dined, and after dinner, like a good young man, I sate and read Bishop Heber's journal till bedtime. There is a Sunday for you! I think that I excel in the diary lire. I will keep a journal like the Bishop, that my memory may "Smell sweet, and blossom in the dust."
The sight that greeted us was stirring, suggesting to the piously minded Bishop Heber's unmatched lines: "A noble army, men and boys, The matron and the maid." There must have been thousands of people, as many women as men, and almost as many children as women, all of whom set up a mighty shout as our little column emerged.
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