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There is but little profit to be expected in atteue with a

man who allows himself to declaim in this ain

But had the systeed coht, and isworth's an to discern that he had cos and our hopes, but chiefly because ere

estranging ourselves from the world, hich his lonely and

exclusive object in life had already put hiinally endoith a great spirit of benevolence,

deep enough and warood as Providence often allows a hu upon his fellows

This native instinct yet lived within

him I myself had profited by it, in my necessity It was seen, too,

in his treatment of Priscilla Such casual circumstances as were here

involved would quicken his divine power of sympathy, and make him seem,

while their influence lasted, the tenderest man and the truest friend

on earth But by and by you rew drearily conscious that Hollingsworth had a closer friend than

ever you could be; and this friend was the cold, spectral monster which

he had hi all the warmth

of his heart, and of which, at last,--as these rown to be the bond-slave It was his

philanthropic theory