A Memoir of the Rev John Russell And His Out of Door Life
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Being attacked by serious illness, which brought him face to face with an enemy he could no longer escape, and having lived a free-and-easy kind of life, with more thought for the present than for a future world, the clergyman of his parish deemed it his duty to visit him, and impress him with a serious view of his coming end. " You are going on a long journey, sir, " said the good parson, " and surely you should make some preparation for it, before it be too late. " " I've no wish to travel, "... replied the sick man ; " this place suits me well enough. " " But, sir, 'tis to a better country I would direct your thoughts, where " "A better country, did you say?" interrupted the other, impatiently. "Give me only a thousand a year and my old w^iit-faced horse, and I'd never wish to see a better country than our Cornish moors. " Finding him impracticable, the parson took his leave, with manifest but unavailing " signs of sorrow. " In a very short time afterwards, being dressed in his top boots and scarlet hunting- coat, he was carried down to a settle near the kitchen fire, where, as volumes of smoke curled THE REV.
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