I can both love and hate; though it be, as it has been, that I entertain
the one feeling in vain, and am restrained from the enjoyment of the
other."
"You were born in a perverse time, and are querulous, for the sake of
the noise it makes," rejoined his cool companion. "I do not desire to
restrain your hands from this young man, but take your time for it. Let
nothing be done to him while in this house. I will run, if I can help
it, no more risk for your passions; and I must confess myself anxious,
if the devil will let me, of stopping right short in the old life and
beginning a new one. I have been bad enough, and done enough, to keep me
at my prayers all the rest of my days, were I to live on to eternity."
"This new spirit, I suppose, we owe to your visit to the last
camp-meeting. You will exhort, doubtless, yourself, before long, if you
keep this track. Why, what a prophet you will make among the
crop-haired, Munro! what a brand from the burning!"
"Look you, Guy, your sarcasm pleases me quite as little as it did the
young fellow, who paid it back so much better than I can.
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