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a bill of exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial
gloom celestial light. In the cloister, hell is accepted in ad-
vance as a post obit on paradise.
The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for
with eternity.
It does not seem to us, that on such a subject mockery is
permissible. All about it is serious, the good as well as the
bad.
The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious
sneer. We understand wrath, but not malice.
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