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Rh casting up bills together. The real reason why an unfortunate attachment outlasts the one more happy is, that it is less confounded with the commonplace of existence."

"I must say," cried the Duc de Mercœur, "you are the very last person I should have suspected of thus subtilising on sentiment."

"Ah!" replied De Joinville, "the truth is, that nobody knows anything about any body. Our nearest and dearest friends have a thousand thoughts and feelings which we have never even suspected. We look in them only for what reflects our own. Our very sympathy is egotism."

"Nay," said Francesca; "there is nothing which appears to me so much exaggerated as the common exclamations about the selfishness of human nature. We are a great deal better than we make ourselves out to be."

"If Mademoiselle Carrara speaks from her own personal experience, I for one will not contradict her."

"Nay," answered she, "I will not be complimented out of my position—mine was a general assertion. Kind and generous impulses are rife in our nature. Look at the pity which springs spontaneously at the sight of affliction—witness the admiration so ready to welcome any great