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The Vicar of Wakefield.

there be injury, there shall be redress; and this I may say without boasting, that none have ever taxed the injustice of Sir William Thornhill."

We now found the personage whom we had so long entertained as an harmless amusing companion was no other than the celebrated Sir William Thornhill, to whose virtues and singularities scarce any were strangers. The poor Mr. Burchell was in reality a man of large fortune and great in­terest, to whom senates listened with ap­plause, and whom party heard with con­viction; who was the friend of his coun­try, but loyal to his king. My poor wife recollecting her former familiarity, seemed to shrink with apprehension; but Sophia, who a few moments before thought him her own, now perceiving the immense dis­tance to which he was removed by fortune, was unable to conceal her tears.

"Ah,