She has saved
a good deal and has a considerable sum in the Savings' Bank,
but like many heiresses she cannot bring her mind to share her
money with another. The great measures of Sir Robert Peel,
which produced three good harvests, have entirely revived
trade at Mowbray. The Temple is again open. newly-painted,
and re-burnished, and Chaffing Jack has of course "rallied"
while good Mrs Carey still gossips with her neighbours round
her well-stored stall, and tells wonderful stories of the
great stick-out and riots of '42.
And thus I conclude the last page of a work, which though its
form be light and unpretending, would yet aspire to suggest to
its readers some considerations of a very opposite character.
A year ago. I presumed to offer to the public some volumes
that aimed to call their attention to the state of our
political parties; their origin, their history, their present
position. In an age of political infidelity, of mean passions
and petty thoughts, I would have impressed upon the rising
race not to despair, but to seek in a right understanding of
the history of their country and in the energies of heroic
youth--the elements of national welfare. The present work
advances another step in the same emprise.
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