It might be
three friends who plan it, instead of two lovers; and the dearest one
dies.
Comfort for childless people. A married couple with ten children have
been the means of bringing about ten funerals.
A blind man on a dark night carried a torch, in order that people might
see him, and not run against him, and direct him how to avoid dangers.
To picture a child's (one of four or five years old) reminiscences at
sunset of a long summer's day,--his first awakening, his studies, his
sports, his little fits of passion, perhaps a whipping, etc.
The blind man's walk.
To picture a virtuous family, the different members examples of virtuous
dispositions in their way; then introduce a vicious person, and trace out
the relations that arise between him and them, and the manner in which
all are affected.
A man to flatter himself with the idea that he would not be guilty of
some certain wickedness,---as, for instance, to yield to the personal
temptations of the Devil,--yet to find, ultimately, that he was at that
very time committing that same wickedness.
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