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Quotation from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Providence put me here, I hope, among other reasons, in order that I may make you what amends I can for the inhospitality of my neighbors.”
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Miraculous Pitcher (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242)
The old man greets the two travellers whom the village children and dogs have just chased with mud and barking.
Citation: "Providence put me here, I hope, among other reasons, in order that I may make you what amends I can for the inhospitality of my neighbors." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Miraculous Pitcher (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242). (id a-wonder-book-q6)
Virtues: Charity
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
