. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. u go upon the old Christianprinciple of heaping coals of fire upon peoples heads, which isthe highest refinement upon vengeance. I see, moreover, thataccording to your system of cosmogony, the difference is butaccidental between the race of kings and that of the first Baronof Lixmore: that ex-lawyers come like other men from Adam,and ex-ministers from somebody who started up out of theground before him, in some more elevated part of the country. To lower these pretensions, it would be serving you right, ifI were to tell you that I w
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. u go upon the old Christianprinciple of heaping coals of fire upon peoples heads, which isthe highest refinement upon vengeance. I see, moreover, thataccording to your system of cosmogony, the difference is butaccidental between the race of kings and that of the first Baronof Lixmore: that ex-lawyers come like other men from Adam,and ex-ministers from somebody who started up out of theground before him, in some more elevated part of the country. To lower these pretensions, it would be serving you right, ifI were to tell you that I was not half so angry as I appearedto be; that, therefore, according to the countrymans rule, youhave not so much the advantage over me as you may think youhave: that the real object of what* anger I really felt was ratherthe situation in which I found myself than you or anybody; butthat, as none but a madman would go to quarrel with a non-entity called a situation, it was necessary for me to look out forsomebody who, somehow or other, was connected with
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