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That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical

one; that such a disease will spread with the ion, when it has once made head, will spare

no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest

health, and become developed in the most unlikely constitutions: is

a fact as firmly established by experience as that we hu beyond appreciation would be conferred

upon mankind, if the tainted, in whose weakness or wickedness these

virulent disorders are bred, could be instantly seized and placed in

close confinement (not to say summarily smothered) before the poison is

coreat distance with its roar, so

the sacred flahty Barnacles had fanned caused the air to

resound more and more with the name of Merdle It was deposited on every

lip, and carried into every ear

There never was, there never had

been, there never again should be, such a man as Mr Merdle Nobody,

as aforesaid, knehat he had done; but everybody knew hi Heart Yard, where there was not one unappropriated