text:  Let us not expect too much from poor human nature! I defy any man--Aristides Redivivus himself to ride _toll free_ through or rather over a turnpike defunct in this manner and not feel a pernicious pleasure at his heart a sort of slyly triumphing satisfaction spite of himself as of a dog that gets his adversary undermost; in short--without becoming for the moment under the Circean chink of the saved "coppers " a rank Rebeccaite! The Lord and the law forgive me for I surely loved 'Becca at _heart_ at that moment! My son being a young man about returning to college it was highly important to conceal this backsliding within; so I launched out the more upon the monster character of this victory of brawny ignorance and stupid rebellion over the spirit of laws--but it wouldn't do