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Pour qui connaît la vie ultérieure de Benjamin Constant, la pièce a tout son prix: «By all that is deemed honorable and sacred, by the value I set upon the esteem of my acquaintance, by the gratitude I owe to my father, by the advantages of birth, fortune and education, which distinguish a gentleman from a rogue, a gambler and a blackguard, by the rights I have to the friendship of Isabella and the share I have in it, I hereby pledge myself, never to play at any chance game, nor at any game, unless forced by a lady, from this present date to the 1st of january 1793: which promise if I break, I confess myself a rascal, a liar, and a villain, and will tamely submit to be called so by every man that meets me.
The progress of the British army in Asia has been marked by a scrupulous reference to justice, an inviolable respect for property, an abstinence from anything which could tend to wound the feelings and prejudices of the people; and the result is this that I saw, not many weeks ago, a distinguished military officer who had just returned from the center of Afghanistan, from a place called Candahar which many of you perhaps never heard of, and told me that he, accompanied by half a dozen attendants, but without any military escort, had ridden on horseback many thousand miles, through a country inhabited by wild and semibarbarous tribes who, but two years ago, were arrayed in fierce hostility against the approach of British arms, but that he had ridden through them all with as much safety as he could have ridden from Tiverton to John Great's house, his name as a British officer being a passport through them all, because the English had respected their rights, and afforded them protection, and treated them with justice.
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