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The Barclays Of Boston. By Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis.,New
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 ...his power, watched over him day and night, and fairly brought him round, so that he recovered his health, but not entirely his strength, before they landed. Charley himself was unscathed by his wearisome exertions, as he richly deserved to be; he also.won golden opinions from his shipmates, who, one and all, deglared that he had behaved like the glorious good fellow he was. 'Such benevolence and such a forgiving spirit,' they cried, 'were rarely seen.' This sickness unto death was, for Mr. Johnstone, a signal mercy. He had begun his career in a mean and sordid way, believing in nothing and in no one, and with an intense craving for human sympathy, had, by his morose, unsocial and forbidding manners, cast away from him his fellowmen. Without family, or connections, he had wandered to India, and there, under its burning sun, led a selfconcentrated existence. Without interests or affections, he had, after many years, returned to America, and finding no one to care for him in his native land, he resolved to retrace his listless steps, and finish his days in Calcutta, since there was nothing to live for at home. Besides, he had found life perfectly intolerable in Boston and elsewhere, his habits having been revolutionized by his Indian residence, so back he was going, when a passage to eternity seemed much nearer to him than one to Calcutta. Now, then, was exhibited to this unbeliever in humanity, a new phase in his previous conceptions. Here was a mere lad, whom he had purposely avoided, for no reason on earth, and for whom he had most savagely betrayed a sentiment of contempt; and this young creature had devoted himself, with the most perseveringly untiring efforts, to the salvation of his lifeand wherefore? There was no wealth to tempt, no apparent goodne...
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