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THE TENANT
"Nothing—more than you do, Arthur: your actions are all right, so far; but I would have your thoughts changed; I would have you to fortify yourself against temptation, and not to call evil good, and good, evil; I should wish you to think more deeply, to look farther, and aim higher than you do."
We now stood before our own door, and I said no more; but, with an ardent and tearful embrace, I left him, and went into the house, and up-stairs to take off my bonnet and mantle. I wished to say nothing more on that subject at the time, lest I should disgust him with both it and me.
