POLLY AND I RESOLVE TO BE "VERY RELIGIOUS"-- DR.

PEPJOHN--THE ALMS-BOX--THE BLIND BEGGAR I must not forget to speak of an incident which had a considerable influence on my character at this time.

The church which my uncle and his family "attended," as it was called, was one of those most dreary places of worship too common at that time, in London and elsewhere.

It was ugly outside, but the outside ugliness was as nothing compared with the ugliness within.

The windows were long and bluntly rounded at the top, and the sunlight was modified by scanty calico blinds, which, being yellow with age and smoke, _toned_ the light in rather an agreeable manner.