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Still indomitable was the reply--"I care for myself The more

solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I aiven by God; sanctioned

by man I will hold to the principles received by me when I was

sane, and not mad--as I am nos and principles are not for the

times when there is no temptation: they are for such ainst their rigour;

stringent are they; inviolate they shall be If at ht break them, ould be their worth? They

have a worth--so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it

now, it is because I a

fire, andfaster than I can count its throbs

Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at

this hour to stand by: there I plantht to the highest: he must yield to it for a

moment, whatever followed; he crossed the floor and seized rasped lance: physically, I felt, at the low of a furnace: mentally, I still

possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter--often an unconscious, but