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company again, he did go there the
second time, with the same company, in
less than three weeks. You see he had
hard work to refuse, because he had
formed the habit of yielding. But he
ought to have refused. If he found it a
hard task, he should have worked harder
at it--he should have set himself more
resolutely about it.

I do not wish to follow this young man
through all the windings of his path for

five or six years. Knowing him so well
* as I did, it would be too painful to pur-
sue his history so minutely, nor is it ne-
cessary to do so. The depraved taste
which he formed for rum and brandy, and