FAIRY PALACE. 69

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ledge is seldom acquired, would not
have enabled you to make so rapid a
progress.” One day, on his-baviug got
off two or three pages of the Latin
Syntax in a very short space of time,
and recited them with uncommon ac-
curacy, Mr. Lloyd made him a present
of a five shilling piece, which he meant,
he said, as a reward for his present
good conduct, and also as a stimulant
to future exertion.

Five shillings to Charles, who had
never before been master of more than
a single halfpenny at a time, the weekly
allowance regularly paid by Dame Mor-
gan to himself and Rosa, to buy plums
and gingerbread at the neighbouring
shop, was indeed a noble present ; but
had it been given him merely as a pre-

sent,