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           ReduceBloombycrossmultiplicationofreversesoffortune,fromwhichthesesupportsprotectedhim,andbyeliminationofallpositivevaluestoanegligiblenegativeirrationalunrealquantity.

           Successively,indescendingheloticorder:Poverty:thatoftheoutdoorhawkerofimitationjewellery,thedunfortherecoveryofbadanddoubtfuldebts,thepoorrateanddeputycesscollector.Mendicancy:thatofthefraudulentbankruptwithnegligibleassetspaying1/4dinthe£,sandwichman,distributorofthrowaways,nocturnalvagrant,insinuatingsycophant,maimedsailor,blindstripling,superannuatedbailiff’sman,marfeast,lickplate,spoilsport,pickthank,eccentricpubliclaughingstockseatedonbenchofpublicparkunderdiscardedperforatedumbrella.Destitution:theinmateofOldMan’sHouse(RoyalHospital),Kilmainham,theinmateofSimpson’sHospitalforreducedbutrespectablemenpermanentlydisabledbygoutorwantofsight.Nadirofmisery:theagedimpotentdisfranchisedratesupportedmoribundlunaticpauper.

           Withwhichattendantindignities?

           Theunsympatheticindifferenceofpreviouslyamiablefemales,thecontemptofmuscularmales,theacceptanceoffragmentsofbread,thesimulatedignoranceofcasualacquaintances,thelatrationofillegitimateunlicensedvagabonddogs,theinfantiledischargeofdecomposedvegetablemissiles,worthlittleornothing,nothingorlessthannothing.

           Bywhatcouldsuchasituationbeprecluded?

           Bydecease(changeofstate):bydeparture(changeofplace).

           Whichpreferably?

           Thelatter,bythelineofleastresistance.