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Let it not be supposed, from what I have just said, that I am detailing any mystery, or penning any romance. What I have described in the Frenchman, was merely the result of an excited, or perhaps of a diseased intelligence. But of the character of his remark at the periods in question an example will best convey the idea. (lk 51)

burning with a rabid ambition to be ranked the equal of her elders in vice (lk 32)