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VIVIAN GREY.

a master of the human mind, not to be aware of the quicksands upon which all greenhorns strike;—he knew too well the danger of unnecessary intimacy. A smile for a friend, and a sneer for the world, is the way to govern mankind, and such was the motto of Vivian Grey.