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CONCLUSION OF THE BATH EPISODE.
The friends of Miss Penrhys were ill advised in trying to cry down a man like my father.

Active persecution was the breath of life to him.

When untroubled he was apt to let both his ambition and his dignity slumber.
The squibs and scandal set afloat concerning him armed his wit, nerved his temper, touched him with the spirit of enterprise; he became a new creature.

I lost sight of certain characteristics which I had begun to ponder over critically.