The young man was &longs;eated by a woman who&longs;e
face had never been remarkable for beauty, but was
irre&longs;i&longs;tibly charming, over &longs;hadowed by melancholy,
and adorned by &longs;en&longs;ibility.—Her fine auburn
hair &longs;he had endeavoured to confine under a
&longs;mall lawn cap, but it had broke from its bandage,
and played in wanton ringlets round her face.

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A child about three months old was at her brea&longs;t,
and the boy to whom I had given the halfpence,
was making boats with bits of wood, and swimming
them in a pail of water that &longs;tood in a corner
of the room.

As we entered, the young man glanced his eyes
upon his cloaths; his cheeks a&longs;&longs;umed a &longs;anguine
hue.—They certainly were thread-bare; but what
of that? they had once been new, and from what
remained we could &longs;ee they had once been elegant;
perhaps it was that very circum&longs;tance which distressed
him.

Whatever circum&longs;tances a per&longs;on is in, you may
always di&longs;cover by their behaviour whether they
have been innured to their &longs;ituation from childhood.—
A per&longs;on who has never known any thing
but poverty, &longs;hews no other mark of chagrin at the
entrance of a &longs;tranger than what proceeds from an
aukwardne&longs;s of manner which they ever betray
when in the company of their &longs;uperiors—and rai&longs;e
that per&longs;on to the mo&longs;t exalted &longs;tation, and you
will &longs;till perceive the &longs;ame di&longs;gu&longs;ting aukwardne&longs;s
and ru&longs;ticity.—So, place a man of education in ever
&longs;o ob&longs;cure a &longs;ituation, you will always discover
the manners of the gentleman, though ob&longs;cured
by the garb of the beggar.

I, therefore, no &longs;ooner beheld the young man
than I di&longs;covered that he had not always worn a
thread-bare coat, or lived from his childhood in a
cottage.

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