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Such was the strait-lacing in which the good man was forever trying to compress his genial, buoyant, and grateful nature. Scott came again and again; and Wordsworth and Southey met to do him honor. The tourist must remember the Swan Inn, the white house beyond Grasmere, under the skirts of Helvellyn.
Alas! if we may use a homely phrase, many are the victims to strait-lacing, both of stays and conscience! But if the old, grey-bearded Ichabod had been an object of dislike to the youthful and self-willed Jewess before she saw Sir Willmott Burrell, how did she regard him afterwards!
Depend upon it, it is a fiction created either by papa's hopes or Philip's self-complacency, or else the unfortunate youth must have been brought very low by strait-lacing and milk-and-water. 'Mr. Thorndale is willing to look up to Philip,
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