[Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Carwin the Biloquist CHAPTER X 14/16
These must take place at considerable intervals, and when _all_ is told, then shall you be ready to encounter the final ordeal, and load yourself with heavy and terrific sanctions. I shall be the proper judge of the completeness of your confession .-- Knowing previously, and by unerring means, your whole history, I shall be able to detect all that is deficient, as well as all that is redundant.
Your confessions have hitherto adhered to the truth, but deficient they are, and they must be, for who, at a single trial, can detail the secrets of his life? whose recollection can fully serve him at an instant's notice? who can free himself, by a single effort, from the dominion of fear and shame? We expect no miracles of fortitude and purity from our disciples.
It is our discipline, our wariness, our laborious preparation that creates the excellence we have among us.
We find it not ready made. I counsel you to join Mrs.Benington without delay.
You may see me when and as often as you please.
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