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 dispensable accompaniments and characteristics of the said virtue.

That is, because the devil is come among us, and finds it for his interest to destroy all our perceptions of the distinctions of right and wrong.

I do not precisely enter into your meaning, Mr. Flosky, and should be glad if you would make it a little more plain to me.

One or two examples will do it, Miss O'Carroll. If I were to take all the mean and sordid qualities of a little Jew broker, and tack on to them, as with a nail, the quality of extreme benevolence, I should have a very decent hero for a modern novel, and should contribute my quota to the