I was silent, wondering what he was driving at.

I am a most unhappy creature, proceeded he: unhappy from a strange

impatiency of spirit, which I cannot conquer. It always brings upon me

deserved humiliation. But it is more laudable to acknowledge, than to

persevere when under the power of conviction.

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