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 analyse it, you will find to be the quintessence of the most refined philanthropy.

I will take it for granted that it is so, Mr. Flosky; I am not conversant with metaphysical subtleties, but—

Subtleties! my dear Miss O'Carroll. I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the reading public, to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.

Indeed, Mr. Flosky, it suggests no such notion to me. I have sought you for the purpose of obtaining information.