13S LIFE AND TIMES. [BOOK II.

ftfc 4 I ?7 * No, sir/ replied the messenger,

** * are Ms majesty to be put in your

" * In the manner, should I retire in indignation,

** of Apollo in mourning, or the Muses in a

" it of the ; instead of having the learned world

fit at my untimely decease; perhaps all Grub

" laugh at my fall, and self-approving dignity

" be able to shield me from ridicule."* Worse

had lie spared himself, with timely aid of these

thoughts; but they came too late. He made his

journey to Peckham, and knocked at Doctor

Milner*s door.

The schoolmaster was not an unkind or unfriendly man,

and would in any circumstances, there is little doubt, have

Goldsmith the shelter he sought. It happened now

he had special need of him : sickness disabling himself

the proper school-attendance. So, again installed poor

usher, week passed over week as of old, with suffering,

contempt, and many forms of care. Milner saw what he

endured; was moved by it; and told him that as soon as

enabled himself to resume the duties of the school, he

would exert an influence to place his usher in some medical

at a foreign station. He knew an East India

director, a Mr. Jones, through whom it might be done.t

ill Hangs, it was what Goldsmith fervently desired.

with something like the prospect of a settled

to Mm mp against the uncongenial and uncertain

he had for other than school labour

lie to a project of Ms own designing. This was

; for we with ft strange new fondness to what

we abandon, and it is the strong resolve to

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