The chariot of paternal deity […] / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.

Which one of the carefully chosen assessors, one white, one sufficiently tinctured to pass as black, was it who was speaking—both sat, either side of the judge, silent henchmen.

Then I believed I had learned to know the measure of earthly suffering; but all sufferings of the world are nothing compared to the sufferings of the befrauded German emigrants in North America.

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