from a very early age.

15. At length the time came when Mr. Esmond was to have done with the
affairs of this life, and he laid them down as if glad to be rid of their
burden. All who read and heard that discourse, wondered where Parson
Broadbent of James Town found the eloquence and the Latin which adorned
it. Perhaps Mr. Dempster knew, the boys' Scotch tutor, who corrected the
proofs of the oration, which was printed, by the desire of his Excellency
and many persons of honor, at Mr. Franklin's press in Philadelphia.

16. No such sumptuous funeral had ever bean seen in the country as that
which Madam Esmond Warrington ordained for her father, who would have been
the first to smile at that pompous grief.

17. The little lads of Castlewood, almost smothered in black trains and
hatbands, headed the procession and were followed by my Lord Fairfax, from
Greenway Court, by his Excellency the Governor of Virginia (with his
coach), by the Randolphs, the Careys, the Harrisons, the Washingtons, and
many others; for the whole country esteemed the departed gentleman, whose
goodness, whose high talents, whose benevolence and unobtrusive urbanity,
had earned for him the just respect of his neighbors. 18. When informed of
the event, the family of Colonel Esmond's stepson, the Lord Castlewood of
Hampshire in England, asked to be at the charges of the marble slab which
recorded the names and virtues of his lordship's mother and her husband;
and after due time of preparation, the monument was set up, exhibiting the
arms and coronet of the Esmonds, supported by a little, chubby group of
weeping cherubs, and reciting an epitaph which for once did not tell any
falsehoods.

DEFINTIONS.--1. Pat-ri-mo'ni-al, inherited from ancestors. 6.
Dis-af-fect'ed, discouraged. 7. Ob-se'qui-ous, compliant to excess. 12.
Black'a-moor, a negro. 17. Ur-ban'i-ty, civility or courtesy of manners,
refinement. 18. Ep'i-taph (pro. ep'i-taf), an inscription on a monument,
in honor or in memory of the dead.

NOTES.--2. Roundhead was the epithet applied to the Puritans by the
Cavaliers in the time of Charles I. It arose from the practice among the
Puritans of cropping their hair peculiarly.

3. Patriarchal. 5. Feudal. The Jewish patriarch, in olden times, and the
head of a noble family in Europe, during the Middle Ages, when the "Feudal
System," as it is called, existed, both held almost despotic sway, the one
over his great number of descendants and relati