A.F.N.
CHAPTER III.
MORBID NORTHERN CONSCIENCE.
"Heaven pities ignorance:
She's still the first that has her pardon sign'd;
All sins else see their faults; she's, only, blind."
MIDDLETON: _No Help like a Woman's._
[Accompanying note, from A. BETTERDAY CUMMING to A. FREEMAN NORTH.
MY DEAR MR. NORTH,--
With many thanks for your kindness and frankness, and with my warmest
congratulations to Mrs. North for the pleasant effect which the Southern
lady's letter has had upon her, I send you another document, hoping that
she will read it to you. It will not be worth while for me to say
anything about this production. It purports to be from a young man in
one of our New England literary institutions, whose aunt, with her
husband, was residing at the South for the health of a niece, a sister
to this young man;--they being orphans. The letter is so entirely in the
same key with your feelings that you cannot fail to be interested.
Knowing that you love rare specimens in everything, I send you this as
"the only one of its kind," or as we say, "_sui generis_."--A.B.C.]
---- College, ---- -- ----.
MY DEAR AUNT,--
I have not heard from you but once since your arrival at the South.
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