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"Troth, then, one would think you must a' done so, sure enough, for the
sorrow a stim of you I seen anyhow."
"O, she's so attentive to her business, your reverence," said Anthony,
with bitter irony, "that she sees nothing else. The lord mayor might
drive his coach in, and she wouldn't see him. There's an ould proverb
goin' that says there's none so blind as thim that won't see. Musha,
sir, wasn't that a disagreeable turn that happened you the other
morning?"
"But it didn't last long, that was one comfort. The Lord save me from
ever seeing such another sight. I never thought our nature was capable
of such things; it is awful, even to think of it. Yes, terrible to
reflect, that there were unfortunate wretches there who will probably
be hurried into eternity without repenting for their transgressions, and
making their peace with God;" and as he concluded, Corbet found that the
good pastor's eye was seriously and solemnly fixed upon him.
"Indeed--it's all true, your reverence--it'a all true," he replied.


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