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Chapter 9
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IN WHICH A GLEAM OF LIGHT IS SHED ON THE HISTORY OF ANNA BONARD
A BOTTLE of wine, and the mild, persuasive1 manner of Mr. Snivel, so completely won over George's confidence, that, like one of that class always too ready to give out their heart-achings at the touch of sympathy, and too easily betrayed through misplaced confidence, he commences relating his history. That of Anna is identified with it. "We will together proceed to New York, for it is there, among haunts of vice3 and depravity--"
"In depth of degradation4 they have no counterpart on our globe," Mr. Soloman interrupts, filling his glass.
"We came up together-knew each other, but not ourselves. That was our dark age." George pauses for a moment.
"Bless you," again interrupts Mr. Soloman, tipping his glass very politely, "I never-that is, when I hear our people who get themselves laced into narrow-stringed Calvinism, and long-founded foreign missions, talk-think much could have come of the dark ages. I speak after the manner of an attorney, when I say this. We hear a deal of the dark ages, the crimes of the dark ages, the dark idolatry of darker Africa. My word for it, and it's something, if they had anything darker in Sodom; if they had in Babylon a state of degradation more hardened of crime; if in Egypt there existed a benightedness5 more stubbornly opposed to the laws of God-than is to be found in that New York; that city of merchant princes with princely palaces; that modern Pompeii into which a mighty6 commerce teems7 its mightier8 gold, where a coarse throng9 revel10
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dwellings
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tribulation
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