I have witnessed the pride and pleasure with which the man worked at improvements of the ground round the house.

Indeed he expressed them to me himself, and the countenance and manner of his wife always denoted feelings of the same character.

I believe a similar disposition to contentment under change of fortune is common among the class to which these good people belong.

Yet, in proof that to part with their patrimony is most painful to them, I may refer to those stanzas entitled 'Repentance,' no inconsiderable part of which was taken _verbatim_ from the language of the speaker himself.

[In pencil--Herself, M.N.] 205.