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Sacrificing – comfor [comfort] – friends –
character – health – & hope for
mere money getting & money keeping
– till his soul all calloused – his
heart shrunken – his sensibities [sensibilities]
deadened – & he takes disgust
at life & all its interests – men
& all they pursue – & lies
on his cheerless hearth stone to die –
a victim self-immolated to mammon.
God gave him his request.

2 See the Sensualist.

He would occupy himself in min-
-istering to his bodily appetites. With
the voracity of a Swine – & the gusto of
gourmand – & the delicacy of

[written in ink upside down right side]
Jesse Moore
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