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| "He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I" (these were his expressions) "could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive machines; whereof," he said, "some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver. Can you, with honour, be the knowing, the wilful occasion, nay, the artful contriver of the ruin of a human being? She prided herself also upon being an excellent contriver in housekeeping; though I could never find that we grew richer with her contrivances. |
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