He is engaged as assistant teacher of the academy at Shelburne
Falls. There was also the high sheriff of Berkshire, Mr. Twining, with a
bundle of writs under his arm, and some of them peeping out of his
pockets. Also several Trojan men and women, who had been to
Commencement. Likewise a young clergyman, graduate of Brown College, and
student of the Divinity School at Cambridge. He had come across the
Hoosic, or Green Mountains, about eighteen miles, on foot, from
Charlemont, where he is preaching, and had been to Commencement. Knowing
little of men and matters, and desiring to know more, he was very free in
making acquaintance with people, but could not do it handsomely. A
singular smile broke out upon his face on slight provocation. He was
awkward in his manners, yet it was not an ungentlemanly awkwardness,--
intelligent as respects book-learning, but much deficient in worldly
tact. It was pleasant to observe his consciousness of this deficiency,
and how he strove to remedy it by mixing as much as possible with people,
and sitting almost all day in the bar-room to study character.
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