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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER VII
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My dear dear sir, the state of sin was the continuing to live in defiance of, in contempt of, in violation of, in the total degradation of, Nature.' 'He was under no enforcement to take the oath at the altar.' 'He was a small boy tempted by a varnished widow, with pounds of barley sugar in her pockets;--and she already serving as a test-vessel or mortar for awful combinations in druggery! Gilt widows are equal to decrees of Fate to us young ones.

Upon my word, the cleric who unites, and the Law that sanctions, they're the criminals.

Victor Radnor is the noblest of fellows, the very best friend a man can have.

I will tell you: he saved me, after I left the army, from living on the produce of my pen--which means, if there is to be any produce, the prostrating of yourself to the level of the round middle of the public: saved me from that! Yes, Mr.Carling, I have trotted our thoroughfares a poor Polly of the pen; and it is owing to Victor Radnor that I can order my thoughts as an individual man again before I blacken paper.

Owing to him, I have a tenderness for mercenaries; having been one of them and knowing how little we can help it.


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