RO PREJUDIOX‘.

“Tt may seem so—yet I have my reasons”
said Allen. “I think he is an impudent
upstart.” .

“Indeed! Are you acquainted with him?”

«No, and I donot wish to be: he is ina
different condition of life from what I am;
his father is a shopkeeper, and/mine is a
merchant. How should we have any inter-
course? We éannot feel alike; we cannot
live alike. Our manners, our tastes, our
pursuits, our associates must all be dissi-
milar. Beside, he is a mean-spirited, nar-
row-minded fellow.” |

«You were never more mistaken, Allen
Highsted—never more in your life. John 18
a frauk, Honest, noble-minded fellow: and
though his father is a shopkeeper, the boy is
as well-bred, and has as good manners as
any other in the village. Indeed, I think he
is a pattern of good manners and right feel-
ings. My father is, as you know, a man of
large forttine; he has been well educated,
and has seen the best society in this and
other cotintfiess and he ‘thinks very highly
“of John’s: father, and he encourages me to

associate with Jobn.” *y
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