Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry (1844)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York, Wiley & Putnam · leaf 46
nstitutionof great power and authority. It was com-mon, at the period of which I speak, for theChurch and inn to stand side by side in thetowns; and if one day in the week sobriety andtemperance were preached in (lie former, lii^d THE INNKEEPER. 33 drinking and licentiousness were deeplypractised… … In such a state of society as this, the inn-keeper was usually the most influential manin the village. Now to do my uncle justice,he was a generous, honest, and frank-heartedman. His full, ruddy countenance bespokeall this. The inn was freely and generouslykept: it was supplied with every luxury…
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