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But, having Christiana's love, I wanted nothing upon earth. I would not have changed my lot with any human being. Avarice was, unhappily, my uncle Chill's master-vice. Though he was rich, he pinched, and scraped, and clutched, and lived miserably.
You know I love you; you know I care deeply for that poor boy but do you think I could be loyal to either of you and not say what I do say? He is doomed, as sure as you sit there! He has fallen, and no one can help him. Link after link he has broken with his own world; his master-vice holds him faster, closer, more absolutely, than hell ever held a lost soul!" "Grace, I cannot endure " "You must!
So you see what that outbreak of Stephen's means to those whose families have been New Yorkers since New York was. It is ominous, it is more than ominous it means that the master-vice has seized on one more Siward. But I shall never, never admit it to his mother."
And Plank, looking him in the eyes, considered, until his courage began to fail. Then he went up-stairs. It was a bad night outside, and it was a bad night for Siward. The master-vice had him by the throat. He sat there, clutching the arms of his chair, his broken leg, in its plaster casing, extended in front of him; and when he saw Plank enter he glared at him.
The mark of the master-vice was there; its stamp in the swollen, worn-out hollows; its imprint in the fine lines at the corners of his mouth; its sign manual in the faintest relaxation of the under lip, which had not yet become a looseness. For the last of the Siwards had at last stepped into the highway which his doomed forebears had travelled before him. "Gumble!" he called irritably.
"Reader, attend whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole In low pursuit; Know prudent, cautious self-control, Is Wisdom's root." One of the vices before which Burns fell and it may be said to be a master-vice, because it is productive of so many other vices was drinking.
Was Mr Dombey's master-vice, that ruled him so inexorably, an unnatural characteristic? It might be worthwhile, sometimes, to inquire what Nature is, and how men work to change her, and whether, in the enforced distortions so produced, it is not natural to be unnatural.
"I know. Major Belwether told me that he had thought of Howard as an anchor for her. It seemed a pity Howard with all his cold, heavy negative inertia. I said I'd do it. I did. And now I don't know; I wish, almost wish I hadn't." "What has changed your ideas?" "I don't know. Howard is safer than Stephen Siward, already in the first clutches of his master-vice.
Whatever it was, material, spiritual, was gone now, and where it had glimmered for a night, the old accustomed twilit doubt crept in the same dull acquiescence the same uncertainty of self, the familiar lack of will, of incentive, the congenial tendency to drift; and with it came weariness perhaps reaction from the recent skirmishes with that master-vice.
But mastery of the master-vice required something different; he was sick of a sickness; and because, in this sickness, will, mind, and body are tainted too, reason and logic lack clarity; and, to the signals of danger his reply had always been either overconfident or weak and it had been always the same reply: "Not yet. There is time."
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