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And there was, as all reasonable men now admit, a strong case against him. That there were great public services to be set off against his great crimes is per- fectly true. But his services and his crimes were equally unknown to the lady who so confidently asserted his per- fect innocence, and imputed to his accusers, that is to say, to all the greatest men of all parties in the State, not merely error, but gross injustice and barbarity. She had, it is true, occasionally seen Mr. Hastings, and ...had found his manners and conversation agreeable. But surely she could not be so weak as to infer, from the gentle- ness of his deportment in a drawing-room, that he was incapable of committing a great State crime, under the influence of ambition and revenge. A silly miss, fresh from a boarding-school, might fall into such a mistake 5 but the woman who had drawn the character of Mr. Monckton should have known better. The truth is that she had been too long at court. She was sinking into a slavery worse than that of the body.
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