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"Another run over here to no purpose!" he cried peevishly: "I wanted to speak to the young shatter-brained jackanapes; and now I hear from the smelting-lads down in the town, that he has just been scampering through it, and not a soul can tell where he is gone." "What business have you with him, friend Conrad?" asked Edward.
It was the first time he had been really engaged, and his affection had not only stood three months' absence, but had so much elevated his shatter-brained though frank and honest temperament, that Albinia conceived a high opinion of 'Emily, and did her best to persuade him to be patient, and wait for promotion.
Of the first he had nothing more to say than that he was 'at first only a well-minded but weak enthusiast, afterwards a mere hypocrite and impostor; of the other he spoke with a certain compassion as 'that errant, shatter-brained, visionary fanatic. And the Methodist, he thought, had a somewhat 'similar texture of brain.
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