... conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure—an inexhaust- ible source of pu... ... mud of Paris, and transplanted it here, to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an English country garden. Mrs. Fairfax found you to train it; but ... ...as poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its fresh- ness. She was not g... ...rs, and never before encountered; and they are all fresh, healthy, without soil and without taint. Such society revives, regenerates: you feel better ... ...ut I resolved to be clean in my own sight—and to the last I repudiated the contamination of her crimes, and wrenched myself from connection with her m... ...lict with fate, had now but to decay quietly, and mingle in peace with the soil of this wilderness. Life, how- ever, was yet in my possession, with al... ...int: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath. Dark as it was getting, I could still see these chang...

...rt, she should always refuse to dance at an assembly with her, for fear of contamination by taking her by the hand.” But to return to my story: as soo... ...oon satisfied her that she had not cast away her hints on a barren or cold soil: on the contrary, they instantly pro- duced her an eager and desiring ... ...eemed to have been disposed by the design of the most skilful planter. The soil was spread with a verdure which no paint could imitate; and the whole ... ...nt; but like mushrooms, they shoot up spontaneously, as it were, in a rich soil. The muses, like vines, may be pruned, but not with a hatchet. The tow...