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grace: then were all the variations which the catastrophe
admitted of. —

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List of chances as the
adversary's made

Observe my Lord — have the goodness to observe — what a
list of chances the adversary had on his side.

1. Any expression of
resentment connects
just an end to the
business as happened to
Palmer

1. I might be provoked at any time beyond endurance: and
the least spark of unguarded resentment blow me up at
once, as happened in Mr Palmer's case. —

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2. J.B. might relinquish
the plan from weariness

I might relinquish the pursuit at any time through
mere weariness and despondency: and time was given me for
it in abundance.

31.
J.B. might kill
himself.

3. I might grow weary of life to such a degree as to cut
the thread of it with my own hand: and nothing was wanting
that could make me so.

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4. J.B. might die of
vexation & disappointment

4. My health might be broken & my days shortened by the
mere wear and tear of vexations and disappointments: and of
those an assortment to give many a man his quietus was
in store for me.

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5. J.B. might die in
the natural way of
things.

5. I might die under the expedient, at the time I should
have died without it, and in the natural way of things.
Mr. Long might thus have been rid of me as with a little
patience the traveller might have been rid of the grasshoppers:
and patience, for thus purpose at least, was not wanting to
Mr Long.

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The establishment
might be kept from
beginning by Long
doing nothing.

At the very worst and failing all chances of seeing the
establishment brought to a visible end, it might be kept
from having a beginning — kept so long as gentlemen kept
their situations — by the mere act of doing nothing: — and in
the act of doing nothing nobody could be more expert than
Mr Long.

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Long's a plan of defence
- J.B to fight the
fight of dispair

Such my Lord is the plan of operations which the
Honourable General had given himself and which with his
host of instruments you will find him pursuing a plan
of

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