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"Oh! Captive, bound, and double-ironed, not
to know, that ages of incessant labor by immortal
creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before
the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not
to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its
little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal
life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to
know that no space of regret can make amends for one
life's opportunities misused! Yet such was I! Oh! Such was
I!”
"Hear me...I am here to night to warn
you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my
fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.''
“You will be haunted by three spirits.”
Expect the first to-morrow, when the
bell tolls one.''
"Expect the second on
the next night at the same hour. The third,
Moremercurial, upon the next night when the last
stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look to see me no
more; and look that, for your own sake, you remember what
has passed between us.''
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