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makes positively against him. His life, therefore, is in your hands.

I know it is. Now is my time of revenge for all the scorn, for all the insults, I have endured from that proud woman.

And is it generous to use it?

Generous! and hast thou kept company with me all these years, Bruton, to talk so like a simpleton as thou dost? I have carried myself with a show of specious sentiments to the world; as every man must do who is not a fool, and intends to live with some credit in it. I have been the delicate, the liberal, the good, and, above all, the good-natured Mr. Robinair, to many; but when did I ever pretend to refinement or generosity before thee?

I cannot, indeed, greatly accuse thee of it. But the present case is so very distressing.

It is so; I apprehend as much, good Mr. Bruton.

But you have lived upon poor Arden; you