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/ kept cool, relatively speaking, and having my heart 

 burning. Then I told him " do you think if 

 during all my life time I had been 

 smoking a dirty pipe and worse tobacco* 

 God would have given me given us these leisures we 

 enjoyed in this very room ? ? he made no answer, but 

 I continued my bitter-sweet admonition rather caustic, 

 burning my heart: Ministers of God, if you will 

 show me any book where you have seen this expres- 

 sion of my veneration to the supreme " Unknown " 

 God ! I will furnish you all your life-time with your 

 dirty occupation, tobacco and wine also. Though it is 

 not so many years that immoral incident happened, I 

 cannot recollect the sequel, I think the whole party 

 went away and that he never replied a word, dreading 

 an explosion . . 



A long time elapsed before he came again, but he 

 did that which I did not expect. Now I cannot help 

 to think that many who may have read these lines I 

 have written about such a man, and continuing an 

 intercourse with him, may think I am not much more 

 dignified than he was. I have said so myself more 

 than once, yet his visits here continued sometime later, 

 even after I had discovered his lying to me, when he 

 said he had never come to Albany or Troy before that 

 day he had confessed it to one of ray sons by asking what 



