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Caleb Williams

CHAPTER III
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Such suffering would probably have soured the kindest temper; what must have been its effect upon Mr.Tyrrel's, always fierce, unrelenting, and abrupt?
The advantages of Mr.Falkland seemed by no means to diminish with their novelty.

Every new sufferer from Mr.Tyrrel's tyranny immediately went over to the standard of his adversary.

The ladies, though treated by their rustic swain with more gentleness than the men, were occasionally exposed to his capriciousness and insolence.

They could not help remarking the contrast between these two leaders in the fields of chivalry, the one of whom paid no attention to any one's pleasure but his own, while the other seemed all good-humour and benevolence.

It was in vain that Mr.Tyrrel endeavoured to restrain the ruggedness of his character.


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