To a certainty that.

It could not be otherwise than that.

For Mr.Prywell's office, its discoveries and its experiences, would sober any man.

'I am sprung from a country,' says Abelard, 'of which the soil is light, and the temper of the inhabitants is light.' So was it with Mr.Prywell to begin with.

But even Abelard was sobered in time, and so was Mr.
Prywell.