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If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit

whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic

affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have

spared his country, America would have been discovered more

gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been

destroyed.

But I forget that I am moralizing in the most interesting part of

my tale, and your looks remind me to proceed.