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 who dared venture even an anonymous word in my favour just then: and that, of those three, I had never seen one at all — of the second much less than I desired — and that the third was under no kind of obligation to me, whatever; while the other two had been actually attacked by me on a former occasion; one, indeed, with some provocation, but the other wantonly enough. So you see you have been heaping "coals of fire," etc., in the true gospel manner, and I can assure you that they have burnt down to my very heart.

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