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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)

CHAPTER XIII
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No Fury so ferocious, as not to have some amiable side.

In the wild wilderness, a leopard-mother caresses her cub, as Hagar did Ishmael; or a queen of France the dauphin.

We know not what we do when we hate.

And I have the word of my gentlemanly friend Stanhope, for it; that he who declared he loved a good hater was but a respectable sort of Hottentot, at best.

No very genteel epithet this, though coming from the genteelest of men.


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