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Excerpt from The Story of a Feather
But I will narrate my adventures in the order they hefel me.
My duty to my parent demands that I should champion him against the supercilious sneers of the world - that I should vindicate his memory from the ignorant slander of mankind.
I will confess it, when, after a race of some twenty leagues, with the horses close at my parent's tail, I beheld my honoured sire thrust his head into a bush, believing, as it was too plain he did, that because he could see nobody, nobody could see him, - I do confess, despite of filial love, I felt a ?uttering of indignation, not unalloyed - may I be pardoned the sin! With contempt. The world has taught me better wisdom. Experience hath made me tolerant. Since I have seen men, praised, too, for their excelling prudence, commit the self same folly as my unfortunate sire, reproach has subsided into, sorrow, and contempt become softened by regret.
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