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NIGHTMARE ABBEY.
secrets. The most approved methods, as recommended both theoretically and practically in philosophical novels, are eavesdropping at key-holes, picking the locks of chests and desks, peeping into letters, steaming wafers, and insinuating hot wire under sealing wax: none of which methods I hold it lawful to practise.
Marionetta.
Surely, Mr. Flosky, you cannot suspect me of wishing to adopt or encourage such base and contemptible arts.
Mr. Flosky.
Yet are they recommended, and with well-strung reasons, by writers of gravity and note, as simple and easy methods of studying character, and gratifying that
