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[Bernett <af...@no...>]

Action, if not distrust. I once made this remark to an excellent friend
of mine now no more, who, however, would not permit of my attributing
this feature to the Americans exclusively, adding, "Where have you more
of this than in Ireland? and surely you would not call the Irish
ungrateful?" He illustrated his first remark by the following short
anecdote:-- The rector of the parish my friend lived in was a man who
added to the income he derived from his living a very handsome private
fortune, which he devoted entirely to the benefit of the poor around
him. Among the objects of his bounty one old woman--a childless widow,
was remarkably distinguished. Whether commiserating her utter
helplessness or her complete isolation, he went farther to relieve her
than to many, if not all, the other poor. She frequently was in the
habit of pleading her poverty as a reason for not appearing in church
among her neighbours; and he gladly seized an