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of sight. Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised
ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.
With which attendant indignities?
The unsympathetic indifference of previously amiable
females, the contempt of muscular males, the acceptance
of fragments of bread, the simulated ignorance of casu-
al acquaintances, the latration of illegitimate unlicensed
vagabond dogs, the infantile discharge of decomposed veg-
etable missiles, worth little or nothing, nothing or less than
nothing.
By what could such a situation be precluded?
By decease (change of state): by departure (change of
place).
Which preferably?
The latter, by the line of least resistance.
What considerations rendered departure not entirely
undesirable?
Constant cohabitation impeding mutual toleration
of personal defects. The habit of independent purchase
increasingly cultivated. The necessity to counteract by im-
permanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.
What considerations rendered departure not irrational?
The parties concerned, uniting, had increased and mul-
tiplied, which being done, offspring produced and educed
to maturity, the parties, if not disunited were obliged to re-
unite for increase and multiplication, which was absurd,
to form by reunion the original couple of uniting parties,
which was impossible.
What considerations rendered departure desirable?