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We must mention one other peculiarity of Mr Harding. As
we have before stated, he has an income of eight hundred a
year, and has no family but his one daughter; and yet he is
never quite at ease in money matters. The vellum and gilding
of 'Harding's Church Music' cost more than any one knows,
except the author, the publisher, and the Rev. Theophilus
Grantly, who allows none of his father-in-law's extravagances
to escape him. Then he is generous to his daughter, for whose
service he keeps a small carriage and pair of ponies. He is,
indeed, generous to all, but especially to the twelve old men
who are in a peculiar manner under his care. No doubt with
such an income Mr Harding should be above the world, as
the saying is; but, at any rate, he is not above Archdeacon
Theophilus Grantly, for he is always more or less in debt to
his son-in-law, who has, to a certain extent, assumed the
arrangement of the precentor's pecuniary affairs.
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