Moderation; Or I Can Take It or Leave It Alone

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I became acquainted with Mr. A., in a neighboring city, some considerable time ago, and formed a great liking to him. He was intelligent, frank, and lively; in a word, essentially a social being. Just one of the class who stand on dangerous ground, though having an instinctive dislike to excess or coarse debauchery. Though then a drinking man myself, I was older than he, and had seen enough of the evils of intemperance and the deceitfulness of strong drink, to make me wish to put him on his guard; but the opportunity never presented itself until about a year afterwards, when I was so situated that I could enforce precept with example.

Mr. A. had arrived in our village, on business; and immediately after his arrival I met him at a corner of a street. After the usual salutations, the following conversation ensued:

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Mr. A. looked suspiciously at me, for Mr. C., who had just arrived on the ground, and to whom I introduced him, showed no indications of belonging to the "Upper Crust," being unwashed, uncombed, and altogether seedy in attire. As they left, I told A. I wished to see him further, and should wait his return from the tavern. A quarter of an hour elapsed ere he made his appearance, and, when he did, he looked at me with an expression of suspicion and enquiry.

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Citation Suggestion for this Object: TextGrid Repository (2024). American Drama. Moderation; Or I Can Take It or Leave It Alone. Moderation; Or I Can Take It or Leave It Alone. American Drama Corpus. Mathias Göbel. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11113/0000-0014-A4C0-7