Believe me, Mr. Robert, the less you
associate with that illustrious stranger the better, for it appears to
me that your creed and his carries damnation on the very front of
it."
I was rather stunned at this; but pretended to smile with disdain,
and said it did not become youth to control age; and, as I knew
our principles differed fundamentally, it behoved us to drop the
subject. He, however, would not drop it, but took both my
principles and me fearfully to task, for Blanchard was an eloquent
and powerful-minded old man; and, before we parted, I believe I
promised to drop my new acquaintance, and was all but resolved
to do it.
As well might I have laid my account with shunning the light of
day. He was constant to me as my shadow, and by degrees he
acquired such an ascendency over me that I never was happy out
of his company, nor greatly so in it. When I repeated to him all
that Mr. Blanchard had said, his countenance kindled with
indignation and rage; and then by degrees his eyes sunk inward,
his brow lowered, so that I was awed, and withdrew my eyes
from looking at him. A while afterwards as I was addressing him,
I chanced to look him again in the face, and the sight of him
made me start violently.
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