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312 arguments. Truly, you seem well prepared for the disappointment, the falsehood, which will meet you at every turn of your future career. Mr. Delawarr has taken a step imperative to his own interests, and for which most convincing reasons may be assigned. I never knew any debatable point not maintained on both sides by unanswerable arguments; and yet you are angry that he has not thrown every advantage aside to enact your beau-idéal of patriotic excellence. Edward Lorraine.—"At this rate, then, your own interests only are to describe your circle of action?"

Mr. Morland.—"Not exactly; they must be a little rounded at the extremities, where they come in contact with those of others." Edward Lorraine.—"Then you would have had me act in direct opposition to all I have been accustomed to regard as good and admirable, and accepted Mr. Delawarr's offers?" Mr. Morland.—"Not exactly; the young man who acts in early life contrary to his feelings, will, in after years, act contrary to his principles of right. I only wish you to draw from it a moral of instability—to see the necessity, if you mean to carry your theories into