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_To the dull plodding man whose vulgar soul is awake only to the gross and paltry interests of every-day life, the spectacle of a noble being plunged in misfortune by the resistless force of passion, serves only as an object of scorn and ridicule._ DECKAR.
[Footnote: Compare the motto prefixed to Chapter XIX. This, like the other, is presumably of Beyle's composition.]