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108 given in vain. I should despise myself, could I believe that my whole future was to be coloured by the vain remembrance of one so mean, so false, as Robert Evelyn."

"Alas! my sweet sister, Robert Evelyn and Marie Mancini are but instruments in the hands of a remorseless destiny. The pain which they inflicted sinks into nothing before the knowledge which they brought. It is their work, that we are grown less kind, less trusting—that we look suspiciously on affection, knowing that it has once deceived us. It is their work, that we seek to repress the warm emotions of the beating heart, lest the encouragement lead to future agony. It is their work, that falsehood, ingratitude, and wrong, are things within our own experience; once we believed in their existence, but not as existing for us."

"But, dearest Guido, what injustice to allow these two to individualise the whole human race!"

"They are the symbols of the whole. The reflections which they first suggested have led to the inevitable conclusion, that evil is inherent in our nature. I no longer believe in happiness, because I see the fallacy of my first belief; and the examination which that induced, has shewn