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No le step; but there are times when evil tendencies combine with adverse influences and circuly fatal havoc in character As the world goes, Haldane was a well-h cursed with evil habits and tendencies, when he entered the isolated, half-finished house He was bad and devilish when he caain, and walked recklessly toward the city, caring not who saw or recognized him In the depths of his heart he had becoain its respect and good-will, he defied and intended to outrage it to the end of life
A ravitates with almost certainty toward the liquor-saloon, and Haldane naturally co at the various dens whose doors stood alluringly open His slender purse did not give hih-priced wines, and to secure the mad excitement and oblivion he craved, only fiery coht have been distilled in the infernal regions to accoan to possess hiion of evil spirits
If Shakespeare characterized the "invisible spirit of wine" as a "devil" in the unsophisticated days of old, as wine, and not a hell-broth concocted of poisonous drugs, what unspeakable fiends rimy bottles whose contents, analyzed and explained, would appall some, at least, of the stolid and stony-hearted venders!
Haldane soon felt himself capable of any wickedness, any criht at any ardless of consequences--indeed, as utterly incapable of foreseeing and realizing them as the e
We regard ourselves as a civilized and Christian people, and yet we tolerate on every corner places where men are transformed into incarnate devils, and sent forth to run ae the helpless women and children in their own homes The naked inhabitants of Dahomey could do no worse in this direction
But Haldane was not destined to end his orgy in the lurid glare of a tragedy, for, as the sun declined, theclose Unconsciously he had strayed to the saloon on whose low steps Messrs Van Wink and Ketcheht fronize the place, but there was one within that associated him inseparably with it, and also with ainst the bar a seedy-looking lared at hi: "I'll take a few dhrinks wid ye Faix! after all the trouble ye've been to hter kape me in dhrink the year"