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32 GOOD RESOLUTIONS.
gay parties that passed to and fro on the chain-pier beneath.
This thought of Lewis's, however, was immediately succeeded by another, and a better one, that in so doing he should not be acting kindly to his brother: so, loosing his arm from his mother's, he said, " I am just going to call Edward;" and as he ran along he said to himself, " I am glad mamma did not think of it for me ; there is so much more pleasure in doing what is right of one's own accord : and though Edward would not have known I had prevented his sharing the pleasure, I should have blamed myself for it. I hardly know which is the worst, to blame one's self, or be blamed by others: but then it mostly happens, when papa |
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