poſſibly could not, abſolutely remove her, ſrom her Place, ſhe found, however, the Means of making her Life very uneaſy. This Mrs. Wilkins, at length, ſo reſented, that ſhe very openly ſhewed all Manner of Reſpect and Fondneſs to little Tommy, in Oppoſition to Mrs. Blifil.
The Captain, therefore, finding the Story in Danger of periſhing, he at laſt took an Opportunity to reveal it himſelf.
He was one Day engaged with Mr. Allworthy in a Difcourſe on Charity: In which the Captain, with great Learning, proved to Mr. Allworthy, that the Word Charity, in Scripture, no where means Beneficence, or Generoſity.
‘The Chriſtian Religion, he ſaid, was inſtituted for much nobler Purpoſes, than to enforce a Leſſon which many Heathen Philoſophers had taught us long before, and which, though it might, perhaps, be called a moral Virtue, ſavoured but little of that ſublime Chriſtian-like Diſpoſition, that vaſt Elevation of Thought, in Purity approaching to angelic Perfection, to be attained, expreſſed, and felt only by Grace. Thoſe (he ſaid) came nearer to‘the
