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shut out from the creeping and flying things around it. You 

 deem it dead ; but its energies are now in fullest action, its. 

 various parts are maturing, and it will soon join its winged 

 brethren in the sky. See here an image of the retirement of 

 the sensualist the sinner within himself, and from the world. 

 See in this creature's gilded coafc of mail, the ' whole armour of 

 righteousness,' which he, who would win heaven, must put on." 

 * * * * * 



A few years saw the burly baron converted into a reverend 

 brother of the same order, and an inmate of the same monas- 

 tery, as Father Ambrose. Whether the baron's caterpillar 

 soul ever emerged from its chrysalidan armour the monastic 

 habit an angelic butterfly, only He. can tell who gave the 

 immortal spirit, and created its fugacious emblem. 



ASM 



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