who requires them to leave undone what she has done herself--and
with sufficient reason too, if her own experience be not wholly
profitless. Well, I must submit. There are advantages, however; I
shall have other pupils to tutor, and it shall go hard with me if
all the grapes prove sour where the vines are so various."

The student of divinity, after these conclusions, prepared to make
his toilet. Very few of these students, in their extreme solicitude for
the well being of the inner man, show themselves wholly regardless
of their externals. Even mourning, it appears, requires to be
disposed by a fashionable costumer. Though the garments to which
the necessities of travel limited Brother Stevens were not various,
they were yet select. The good young man had an affection for his
person, which was such certainly as to deserve his care. On this
occasion he was more than usually particular. He did not scruple
to discard the white cravat. For this he substituted a handkerchief
which had the prettiest sprig of lilac, on a ground of the most
delicato lemon color. He consulted complexions, and his mirror
determined him in favor of this pattern. Brother Stevens would not
have worn it had he been summoned, in his new vocation, to preach
or pray at the conventicle; nor would he have dreamed of anything
but a black stock had his business been to address the democracy
from the top of a cider-barrel. His habits, under such necessities,
would have been made to correspond with the principles (Qu?) which
such a situation more distinctly called for.

But the thoughts of our worthy brother ran upon other objects. He
was thinking of Margaret Cooper. He was about to pay that damsel
a visit. His progress, we may suppose, had not been inconsiderable
when we are told that his present visit was one of previous