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...hinted that she was insufficiently clad. Then I explained. She laughed in the most astonishing way, and confessed that she had never yet been afflicted by the deadly disease which her husband had imputed to her. And then I knew that Alfred had been guilty of the basest prevarication. I almost wept over his fault; my confidence in human...
...basest is, and hope's white garments soil...
...insulted by his opponents; one of them going so far as to declare him "a corrupter of morals and unfit for his place." These are groundless accusations, and their groundlessness was evident even to the accuser. In other words, Dr. Miner and his friends have been guilty of the basest perversion of facts and the most unwarrantable insolence to Dr. Peabody. The students of Harvard College are justly indignant at this cowardly attack upon one so highly esteemed and beloved by them...