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persons who are always telling how charity begins
at home, and are yet unwilling to bestow their
charity anywhere, either at home or abroad ; but
she began to think that Henry was aiming at
accomplishing everything, as it were, in one day.
She would leave something to be done to-morrow.
She was not at all inclined to tell Henry her
feelings, lest she should be like those who break
the "bruised reed," or quench the "smoking flax,"
as the Scriptures express it. She was willing
the flame should burn, only she did not wish to
have it expand itself by a combustion which was
too rapid. She only said,— and that perhaps a
little prematurely, — " Come now, Henry, you are
getting tired, are you not, and you have done a
great deal already ; the world, as you know, was
not made in a day."