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 in Robert's heart; but where the passions are habitually uncontrouled, the stings of conscience have no other effect than to increase the irritation.

"Had Mrs MacClarty been capable of reasoning, how would her soul have been wrung with remorse, had she then said to herself—There was a time when this boy's passions might have been subdued; when, with a little care, he might have learned to controul them!"