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SYMPATHY.
“Here 's fresh halibut!” cried the fish-vender, beneath
Mrs. Partington's window.
“I know it is, you poor cretur!” said the estimable
lady, looking after him with a commiserating expression;
“I know it is; and I believe it is the seventh fresh haul
about that he has made by here to-day; and he speaks
so pitiful, too, when he is telling us of it, it makes my
very heart ache for him.”
She caught not the deep significance of the cry; but
her benevolence, always on the alert, construed it into
an appeal for sympathy. Heaven's blessings on thee,
Mrs. Partington, and, with reverence be it wished,
where hearts are regarded, may you turn up a trump.
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PAUL'S GHOST.
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