For fear of
losing the present lucky opportunity, I am longer than otherwise I should
be. But I will not enlarge, any further than to assure you that I am, to
the best of my power,
'Your faithful friend and servant,
'ARTHUR WILLIAMS.'
'I will come once every morning, and once every evening, after school-
time, to look for your letters. I'll come in, and return without going
into the house, if I see the coast clear: Otherwise, to avoid suspicion,
I'll come in.'
I instantly, in answer to this pleasing letter, wrote as follows:
'REVEREND SIR,
'O how suited to your function, and your character, is your kind letter!
God bless you for it! I now think I am beginning to be happy. I should
be sorry to have you suffer on my account: but I hope it will be made up
to you an hundred-fold, by that God whom you so faithfully serve. I
should be too happy, could I ever have it in my power to contribute in
the least to it. But, alas! to serve me, must be for God's sake only;
for I am poor and lowly in fortune; though in mind, I hope, too high to
do a mean or unworthy deed to gain a kingdom. But I lose time.----
'Any way you think best, I should be pleased with; for I know not the
persons, nor in what manner it is best to apply to them.
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