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Wieland; or The Transformation

CHAPTER XXVII
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He sought my uncle, and confided to him the tale which he had just related to me.

He found a more impartial and indulgent auditor in Mr.Cambridge, who imputed to maniacal illusion the conduct of Wieland, though he conceived the previous and unseen agency of Carwin, to have indirectly but powerfully predisposed to this deplorable perversion of mind.
It was easy for Carwin to elude the persecutions of Ludloe.

It was merely requisite to hide himself in a remote district of Pennsylvania.
This, when he parted from us, he determined to do.

He is now probably engaged in the harmless pursuits of agriculture, and may come to think, without insupportable remorse, on the evils to which his fatal talents have given birth.

The innocence and usefulness of his future life may, in some degree, atone for the miseries so rashly or so thoughtlessly inflicted.
More urgent considerations hindered me from mentioning, in the course of my former mournful recital, any particulars respecting the unfortunate father of Louisa Conway.


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