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would not have been the same ? No , he caaru ? £ -6 fty < it . Then a tru $ e to backbiting and bitterness , and let us go taworlk to remove the stumbling blocks which beset the path of tk « : morally maimed and blind * and still more let us go to work in behalf of the rising race * lest at any time they strike their feet against stones .
After the course just described , Montague came into the scenes of domestic and social life , just what such a course was calculated to make him . He looked upon his father as an old gentleman standing between himself and his inheritance ; and an event which natural affection should have taught him to deprecate , highly nurtured selfishness led him to desire . Creditors and dissolute
companions weaken the bonds of filial attachment , even when they have been woven wisely by the parent ' s hand ; but how does it chance where the accident of birth forms the only connecting tie of union , and when for every other circumstance the child has baen indebted to his parent ' s purse , not to his personal exertions ? Shall we wonder in such cases that we have the sign for the thing , find that father and son are nothing more than two men bearing
the same name , with opposite views and opposing interests ? Montague was not so utterly indifferent to his mother , because she no way interfered with his expectations ; she had besides been uniformly indulg ent , but no respectful gratitude grew out of the recollection of that indulgence , and from her and her slavish servants he had taken the type of his opinions regarding the sex . Whilst weak himself as the echo of an almost exhausted sound ,
dud shallow as a common water-course , he was perpetually talking of the weakness and shallow ness of women , and fancied him ~ self invested with an unalienable superiority , though cheaply purchased op the credit of sex , station , and money . He brought to society an abundance of gallantry , of which the woman of fashion , of rank , of wealth , of which the well-dressed
woman , the young and pretty woman might command as much as she pleased ; but which the poor woman , the plain woman , the meanly-dressed , aged , afflicted , deformed woman would have found scant enough . The mass of the community he Tegarded with indifference or derision , as the humour moved him ; and it was only such as promised to promote his importance , or minister to his pleasures or his luxuries , who excited in him the slightest interest .
Florence , who , though eminently qualified to attach the lover , had not beet ) reared to allure the libertine ; who , though cordially alive to every social feeling , was perfectly untouched by any conventional onje , presented to him a puzzle , which at first wounded him mipd , \> m speedil y won upon it , or rathtr awakened it . It h % ji b ## n kmg . sinea he had thought anything nacasmary to im »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/22/
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