TWO MENTORS:

MODERN STORY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

THE OLD ENGLISH BARON.

"A man cannot possess any thing better than a good woman,
"nor any thing worse than a bad one."

SIMONIDES.

Translated by Addison, Spectator, 209.

Reeve, Clare

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TWO MENTORS:

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MODERN STORY.

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LETTER I.

RICHARD MUNDEN, ESQ. TO EDWARD

SAVILLE, ESQ.

YOUNG MAN!

TAKE it very ill that I have not heard from you since left London!-Do not I stand in you the place of a father to you?-Nay, have I not been more than a father to you: for I am no relation by blood, but your guardian only, and the friend of your deceased father?

First, I released you from the harsh discipline of a pedagogue, and forbade him to lash you into learning, alias pedantry; which only serves to narrow and depress the spirit of a gentleman, or else to make him conceited and overbearing. Secondly, I followed you with my good offices afterwards, to mitigate the fatigues of education, and to make yoù an accomṣ

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