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e very close of an evening session. But this place also frequently fell to my father, especially after stormy debates and roused or despondent feelings, when his function was to soothe and to cheer. It was, besides, getting quite late, wrote N. P. Rogers in January, 1842, of the anti-slavery Lib. 12.26. meeting at the State House, and we felt that the meeting needed a winding — up from Garrison. There were, I think, few set occasions for testing my father's ability as a close debater. Cer warm and romantic friendship, was unquestionably George Thompson. This more than any other pairing suggested David and Jonathan; and the days of their intercourse were to my father, I am sure, the very happiest of his life. The affinity for N. P. Rogers was of course very strong, and was in a fair way to be confirmed when the unhappy Ante, 3.120. separation took place; but it lacked the parity of age and the historic roots which the attraction for Thompson had. It can be said that my father