The Dean looked about as éveillé as usual, stroked his
head, and asked him how he liked school, and some other
questions generally put to children. In the afternoon he
told him to stand by him at the card-table; and when the
time arrived for Charles to make his bow and return to
Dr. Beauvoir's, the Dean, who had won about a guinea,
generously presented poor dear Charles with two and sixpence;
for which he made one of his graceful French bows, and re∣tired.
They never met again, until they met in the regions
of departed spirits. Some persons have even doubted whether
poor Thurlow could be found worthy of a place to behold
the glory of the "ANGEL of the Church of Durham." The
resemblance in face and person of Mr. Thurlow to the Bi∣shop
was remarkably striking to all the company, allowing
only that the tempers and dispositions of his mind were
entirely Lynch and Wake, which threw a look of benevo∣lence
into his features and countenance, which did not ap∣pear
in the Bishop's.About the year 1786 there died at Canterbury a very
excellent young man, an old school-fellow of Mr. Berkeley's,
Mr. George Hasted, son of the Author of the History of
Kent. On Mr. Berkeley's arrival, in vacation-time, Mrs.
Berkeley asked her Son "if he was not afflicted at the
death of his old intimate, George Hasted?" He replied,
"I was very sorry for the death of so very worthy a young
man; but, my dear Mother, he was never an intimate
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