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Updated: May 4, 2025
Since he had assumed the reins of government, the whilom recluse had discovered that the management of such a wide property was indeed no sinecure; and moreover as his brother, who certainly understood such matters in a thoroughly practical manner, had warned him that a person of his own philosophical, over-benevolent and abstracted turn of mind, was singularly ill-fitted for the task.
He should have known better, the instant result was Mrs. Dowling in motion at an impetuous waddle. She entered the box-tree seclusion with the lower rotundities of her face hastily modelled into the resemblance of an over-benevolent smile a contortion which neglected to spread its intended geniality upward to the exasperated eyes and anxious forehead.
There is often on both sides a vigilance not over-benevolent; and as attention is strongly excited, so that nothing drops unheeded, any difference in taste or opinion, and some difference where there is no restraint will commonly appear, immediately generates dislike. 'Never let criticisms operate upon your face or your mind; it is very rarely that an authour is hurt by his criticks.
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