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 of real misfortune, will give place to a modern one, setting out a more instructive picture of querulous impatience under imaginary evils.

Will you oblige me, Mr. Flosky, by giving me a plain answer to a plain question?

It is impossible, my dear Miss O'Carroll. I never gave a plain answer to a question in my life.

Do you, or do you not, know what is the matter with my cousin?

To say that I do not know, would be to say that I am ignorant of something: and God forbid, that a transcendental metaphysician, who has pure anticipated cognitions