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ADAM BEDE.
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slept the sleep of the irresponsible; for had he not kept up his charter by going to church on the Sunday afternoons?
Fine old Leisure! Do not be severe upon him, and judge him by our modern standard: he never went to Exeter Hall, or heard a popular preacher, or read Tracts for the Times or Sartor Resartus.
