Nothing anyone could say or do would change him. One marked difference between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of events, was exhibited in the mouth. ’ ‘But he’s a major of militia, miss. ” She stopped with an air of interrogation. But I must summon my janizaries. ” Her hand fell back into her lap. Before Wood had time to inquire into the cause of this sound, his attention was diverted by a man, who rushed past the entry with the swiftness of desperation. She could tell it was new territory for him and he might lose the nerve to take them off himself, without the aid of drink. . ‘Which is why I feel sure he will utterly repulse the girl, even if she is his granddaughter. It wasn't worth while to invest imaginatively a man with evil projects simply because he was physically ugly. Even then she had understood vaguely that she had touched upon some philosophy of life: that one was never lonely when alone, only in the midst of crowds. " "Ah, I see. The pursuit of pleasure, selfgratification, is an original instinct with her.
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