 I shall be present or not, for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt...  The Works of Washington Irving ... - Page 252by Washington Irving - 1861Full view - About this book
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