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 tragicomical completion of his prediction, "That I should neither think, nor act like any other man's child, upon that very account."

The mistake of my father, was in attacking my mother's motive, instead of the act itself: for certainly key-holes were made for other purposes; and considering the act, as an act which interfered with a true proposition, and denied a key-hole to be what it wasit became a violation of nature; and was so far, you see, criminal.

It is for this reason, an' please your Reverences, That key-holes are