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 indifference and carelessness. "Are you mad." said the Italian "or worse than mad?" "I affect it not," replied Lady Avondale. "I conclude, therefore that it is real." Indeed there was a strange compound in Calantha's mind. She felt but little accountable for her actions, and she often had observed that if ever she had the misfortune to reflect and consequently to resolve against any particular mode of conduct, the result was that she ever fell into the error she had determined to avoid. She might indeed have said that the spirit was willing but the flesh was weak; for whatever she resolved, upon the slightest temptation to the contrary, she failed to execute.