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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ... no such thing as sorrow while we have health and money, and don't care a straw for anybody in the world. If you choose to love people, their health and circumstances, if either go wrong, can fret you: that opens many avenues to pain. Never live alone, but always feel alone. You think this unamiable: possibly. I am no hypocrite, and I never affect to be anything but what I am--John Lilburne." As the peer thus spoke, Vaudemont, leaning against the door, contemplated him with a strange mixture of interest and disgust. "And John Lilburne is thought a great man, and William Gawtrey was a great rogue. You don't conceal your heart?--no, I understand. Wealth and power have no need of hypocrisy: you are the man of vice, Gawtrey the man of crime. You never sin against the law, he was a felon by his trade. And the felon saved from vice the child, and from want the grandchild (your flesh and blood) whom you disown: which will Heaven consider the worse man? No, poor Fanny! I see I am wiong. If he would own you, I would not give you up to the ice of such a soul: better the blind man than the dead heart!" "Well, Lord Lilburne," said De Vaudemont, aloud, shaking off his revery, " I must own that your philosophy seems to me the wisest for yourself. For a poor man it might be different: the poor need affection." "Certainly," said Lord Lilburne, with an air of patronising candour. "And I will own farther," continued De Vaudemont, " that I have willingly lost my money in return for the instruction I have received in hearing you converse." "You are kind: come and take your revenge next Thursday. Adieu." As Lord Lilburne undressed, and his valet attended him, he said to that worthy functionary, "So ...
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