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What an excellent character is the black Colonel in Mrs. Bennett's "Beggar / Girl! "[1]
If an inscription be put upon my tomb, it may be that I was an enthusiastic / lover of the church; and as enthusiastic a hater of those who have betrayed / it, be they who they may.[2]
[Footnote 1: / This character was frequently a subject of pleasant description and / enlargement with Mr. Coleridge, and he generally passed from it to a high / commendation of Miss Austen's novels, as being in their way perfectly / genuine and individual productions. -- ED.]
[Footnote 2: / This was a strong way of expressing a deep-rooted feeling. A better and a / truer character would be, that Coleridge was a lover of the church, and a / defender of the faith! This last expression is the utterance of a / conviction so profound that it can patiently wait for time to prove its / truth. -- ED.]