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He played his part of reptile to this poor eve so cleverly, he made the fatal bloom of the apple so dazzling to her eyes, that marie left the ball-room filled with that species of remorse which resembles hope, flattered in all her vanities, stirred to every corner of her heart, caught by her own virtues, allured by her native pity for misfortune.
The consultant was a man who had been hardened by a life of ceaseless labour, and who had been driven, as so many others have been, by the needs of his own increasing family to set the commercial before the philanthropic side of his profession.
The ancient, loyal mahal was the first to go.