Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-06-30

how are yous What Lucky wind Ia.
blown you here. .
What! George! who :-what-ec,d
! must be dreaming
How happy am to see you.' !
ran on How kind Of you to come
How well you're looking"
I Eth! What? Where am I,-Whx
It Is not possible! Good Lsrd. how
people may be deceived! NV dear
George. speaking ,apidly--:I met
two fellows. in a tandem, in the Hsy.
market, one 81 them 90 much like YOU
IN every particular. that l hailed him
at once. The puppy disowned me
affected to make a jest Of me, and drove
OH. On my soul my hair stood on end,
and my blood was in boil. drove
down directly with four horses 10 tell
your tutor. TO tell the master. TO tell
the whole College, that l would have
nothing more to do with you; that
would be responsible for your debts no
longer; to enclose you City pounds.
and disown you forever
My dear cir. how singular,'
singular? i wonder at perjury no
longer. For my part, | would have
gone into any Court Of Justice, and
have taken my oath il was you ne
yer saw such likeness. The air, the
height, the voice. all but the manner.
and THAT was NOT yours. Mono
you wouldn't have treated your old
uncle so.'
How rejoioed am that-'
Rcjoiccd. So am I. would NOT
but have been undeceived for a thou
sand guineas. Nothing but seeing you
here so quiet. so studious, so immersed
IN mathematics, would have convinc-
ed me. Egad, ! cant tell you how |
was started. had been told some
queer stories, 60 be sure, about your
cambridge etiquette. I heard that
two Cambridge men. one Of Trinity.
the other Of 81. Johns, had met on the
top OF Vesuvius. and they thought they
knew each other by name and reputa
ton, yet never having been formally
introduced, like two simpletons they
looked at each other in silence, and
lett the mountain separately and with
out speaking. And it was only last
week that cracked fellow. common.
er. Meadows, showed me a caricature.
taken from the life. representing a
Cantab drowning, and another gowns.
man standing on the brink, exclaiming
oh. that | had the honor Of being
introduced to that man that I might
have taken the liberty TO save him =
But-d-- il, thought l. he never
would carry so far with his own uncle.
never heard that Your father was a
gay man. continued he musing, but
as you sit IN that light The likeness IL. >
] moved instantly. But IT'S impossi-
BILE. YOU know IT'S impossible. Come.
my dear boy. come, people though cleo
trihed, must dine. Who could he be:
Never were two people SO aliker
We dined at the Inn, spent the
veniDg together, and instead of the fl
~. the last fifty he generously gave
the draft for thee times the amount.
lie lett Cambridge the next morn, the
last works were, as he entered his car
risar. Most surprising likeness. God
bless you.-Read hard young dog, read
hard. Like as two brothers. Who
the ,l----l could he be !'-I never saw
him again.
His death which happened a Few
months afterwards, ia consequence Of
his being BIZ in bet contracted when
he was n little elevated left me the
heir Of his fine estate-i-wish | could
add to his many and uubIe virtues. /
do not attempt Co palliato deception,
u Is always criminal. But am sure.
no severity. no reptimand, no reproach
would have had half the effect which
has Kindness, his confidence and bis
gsneTOsity wrought on me. Itreform.
ed me thoroughly, and vt once. did
not see London again till had gradu-
ated; and " MY degree was unaccom.
panied by brilliant honors, il did not
disgrace my uncIe's libcrality or his
name. Many wears have elapsed since
our last interview, bot never reflect
CA i, without pain aud pleasure-pain
that our last intercoufs ON earth should
have been marked by circumstances Of
the grossest decepuon--and pleasure
that the serious reflections il awaken
cd. cured me forever of al wish to de.
ceiye, aud made The open and strait
forward path Of lie. that Of
The SeTagenGyian.
1 Do. Andrews. Dean,of Canterbury
had great dislike 10 the iastIdlous