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For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.

“One instant, my dear friend,” replied the abbé; “it is clear you do not understand the nature of the courage with which I am endowed, and what use I intend making of my strength.

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty.

Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering; he wishes to discover if the fine abilities with which nature had endowed you have been weakened by want of culture; and, in short, whether you consider yourself capable of resuming and retaining in the world the high position to which your rank entitles you.”