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 met with that require revenge. If my wife has been guilty, she is already punished; and for her accomplice, if such there be, he will not escape with impunity; and to drag on a wretched life, with the diabolical intention of destroying another, would be only redoubling my own miseries here, and assuring to myself punishment hereafter."

"So young a stoic!" exclaimed the old man, with a look of contempt, "either you are a hypocrite, or you were born without passions."

"The detestable character of the first," replied the other, "I utterly disclaim, and had I been created without passions, all the misfortunes of my life would have been avoided: No, I am not without passions, but adversity has taught me wisdom, has moderated the impetuosity of youth, and suffering as I do under the violence of momentary rage, which in an instant may be guilty of excesses never to be repaired, I have learned to bear and to forbear in points that are doubt-