This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...if not of his excesses, should have felt strongly and indignantly upon such an occasion. A short time, indeed, revealed the real state of the case, as far as the cause of Pen's imprisonment was concerned, but his determined and persevering silence, --although imposed by their own orders, in some degree- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...if not of his excesses, should have felt strongly and indignantly upon such an occasion. A short time, indeed, revealed the real state of the case, as far as the cause of Pen's imprisonment was concerned, but his determined and persevering silence, --although imposed by their own orders, in some degree--convinced them they had little to hope from his repentance, or from a return to a sense of duty.. It may, however, be a matter of some surprise to the reader, that this gentleman, who had been the early friend and instructor of the boy, and had admitted him to hi heart, from the acknowledged sweetness of his disposition, and the natural integrity of his mind, should have given him up at once, and supposed, without more direct evidence, that he had in so short a commerce with the world, become the very reverse of that he promised to be, and a mere vagabond, without principle or compunction. Appearances, to be sure, were strong against him. Circumstantially he had been proved guilty of attempting the life of Sir Luke's heir, merely because he stood in the way of an imprudent and unauthorized passion, --and no less so of a rude trespass upon the laws of duty and hospitality, in regard to his early friend and instructor, by tearing away from her closest ties, the child of his adoption. Still it may be said, that, with a parental and friendly indulgence towards acts, which, if they could not be justified, might still be palliated, it was natural that Mr. Mapletoft, who knew the structure of the mind he had early laboured to form, should make many allowances, and trust to nature for redeeming the errors into which inexperience might have led him. But it is to be remembered, that this gentleman had long deplored and deprecated the desultory plan of...
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