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Updated: May 29, 2025
Surely she thought within herself, this man is worth saving There is still love and tenderness within him, notwithstanding all his self-ruin, he reminds me of an expression I have picked up somewhere about "Old Oak," holding the young fibres at its heart, I will appeal to that better nature, I will use it as a lever to lift him from the depths into which he has fallen.
"Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life or the entering upon some newly-discovered paradise look upon my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will to see his destruction and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget a time when it was otherwise to hear about the piteous spectacle of his own self-ruin could he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's drinking and feverishly looking for this night's repetition of the folly could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly, with feebler and feebler outcry, to be delivered it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation, to make him clasp his teeth,
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