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divinity that shapes their ends.

As possessed to no degree of Mr. Cornish's
confidence, I will just hint that there may
have been a private reason for his manful
persistence so long and so successfully in
an uncongenial occupation and an equally
intimate occasion for his sudden change
of life. Every man has his romance let
alone one whose nature is deeeply suffused
with poetic sensibility And Mr.
Cornish sometimes tells particularly of
rising with the sun at Beauharnois to
take boat out upon the St. Lawrence
and see the magic unrolling of the
morning mists from the surface of the
great river. But for whatever immediate
cause, David suddenly resigned his
position in Quebec, left dear associations
far behind and appeared at Huron
College.