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A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.
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Now can you understand why it is that the mere sight of a card is horrible to me?"
"Nonsense," said I, "if you had sent him the money the night before it might have saved him for a month or two, but he would have relapsed, his vice would have reconquered him, and his end would have been the same."
"That may be true," replied the painter, "but one ought never to be that last drop of water that causes the vase to overflow."
