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SEVERE, BUT JUST.
`Dolly Prim a spinster, indeed!” said Mrs. Partinton,
as she heard her unmarried neighbor in the back
parlor termed thus. “I should like to know what upon
airth she spins but street-yarn; for she 's gadding from
morning to night. The wheel she spins on would be
harder to find, a great deal, than the fifth wheel of a
coach!”
O! she could be severe, could Mrs. Partington; but
there was generally a commingling of the bitter and
sweet, the wormwood and molasses, in her rebukes, that
tempered acidity, and made reproof wholesome.
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