& LITTLE ANST. [* well. But as the parents kept a little shop, and sold their articles in this room, it was very public and noisy ; so that, to a mind less calm than Ann’s, it would have been very distressing. In addition to all the surrounding noise and bustle, an open clock was beating its monotonous vibrations, and ringing its shrill peals continually at the foot of her bed. But though these things not a little discomposed my mind, they were scarcely felt or regarded by the patient sufferer, whose whole mind and thoughts were abstracted from surrounding and visible things, and fixed on those which are invisible and eternal. I can hardly tell why it is so, but I seldom can converse with children to my own satisfaction, or to their profit, if others are present. On entering the room where little Ann lay, for some time I felt myself un
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