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NIGHTMARE ABBEY.
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tract—the honor of the Glowries of Nightmare Abbey: and now, sir, what is to be done?"
"Indeed, sir, I cannot say. I claim, on this occasion, that liberty of action which is the co-natal prerogative of every rational being."
"Liberty of action, sir? there is no such thing as liberty of action. We are all slaves and puppets of a blind and unpathetic necessity."
"Very true, sir; but liberty of action, between individuals, consists in their being differently influenced, or modified, by the same universal necessity; so that the results are unconsentaneous, and their respective necessitated volitions clash and fly off in a tangent."
"Your logic is good, sir: but you are aware too, that one individual may be a
