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To the uninitiated that is, to any but 

 the heartless reveller in the orgies of a 

 Pandemonium where all the evil passions 

 of our nature are developed success and 

 loss are equally destructive of moral obli- 

 gations and religious duty. The first car- 

 ries him into the region of extravagance 

 and folly, the other commits him to the 

 lowest pit of despondency and despair. 



I was silently and gloomily lamenting 

 my sad fate, when one of the book-keepers 

 at the establishment where I had so repea- 

 tedly sought employment, and who had 

 been in my father's service, sent to say he 

 wished to speak to me. I hurried to the 

 office. He told me he had just heard that 

 a certain person who drove out of the yard 

 was about to leave. Upon my doubting 

 the truth of his information, he assured me 

 that the man had taken an Inn on the 

 road; and consequently, to make use of a 

 hackneyed term, must vacate his seat on 



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