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CHAPTER VII.
BARKILPHEDRO GNAWS HIS WAY.
There is one thing the most pressing of all: to be ungrateful.
Barkilphedro was not wanting therein.
Having received so many benefits from Josiana, he had naturally but one
thought--to revenge himself on her. When we add that Josiana was
beautiful, great, young, rich, powerful, illustrious, while Barkilphedro
was ugly, little, old, poor, dependent, obscure, he must necessarily
revenge himself for all this as well.
When a man is made out of night, how is he to forgive so many beams of
light?
Barkilphedro was an Irishman who had denied Ireland--a bad species.
Barkilphedro had but one thing in his favour--that he had a very big
belly. A big belly passes for a sign of kind-heartedness. But his belly
was but an addition to Barkilphedro's hypocrisy; for the man was full of
malice.
What was Barkilphedro's age? None. The age necessary for his project of
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