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se of his late domestic difference with his wi

m to the gin-palace, scarcely opened his lips except to drink. His manner of taking his liquor was not attractive; he raised his glass to his lips with a sly furtive air, and conducted himself throughout in so objectionable and jarring a spirit, that when, with

on was magnetically repeated in the attitudes of the persons around him. As when a person in the street stands still, and poin

of music from without. Only half-a-dozen notes reached his e

hand, and, had he not placed it on the c

for the musician. He could not see him, and the sound had

ing, with a backward pointing of his thumb, to hi

rticular; but one said he thought, now Mr. Chester mentioned

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which so satisfied Mr. Chester, that he inhaled a long breath of re