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The Lawyer Giles is a tavern patron who comes to the kiln with the Stage Agent, the Village Doctor, and Humphrey. A resident of the village since the time Ethan Brand tended the kiln, Lawyer Giles has—like the Village Doctor—succumbed to alcoholism in the intervening years. Once, he was a well-respected lawyer, but his habit of abusing alcohol eventually ruined his legal career. His body bears the marks of his lowered status: as he turned to various forms of manual labor, working accidents cost him a hand and part of a foot. Now, he makes soap. However, his alcoholism hasn’t ruined his temperament, and although he wears worn and dirty clothes, his irrepressible spirit and courage in the face of his decline have endeared him to his neighbors.
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No mind, which has wrought itself by intense and solitary meditation into a high state of enthusiasm, can endure the kind of contact with low and vulgar modes of thought and feeling to which Ethan Brand was now subjected. It made him doubt—and, strange to say, it was a painful doubt—whether he had indeed found the Unpardonable Sin, and found it within himself. The whole question on which he had exhausted life, and more than life, looked like a delusion.
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Lawyer Giles Quotes in Ethan Brand
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Ethan Brand
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No mind, which has wrought itself by intense and solitary meditation into a high state of enthusiasm, can endure the kind of contact with low and vulgar modes of thought and feeling to which Ethan Brand was now subjected. It made him doubt—and, strange to say, it was a painful doubt—whether he had indeed found the Unpardonable Sin, and found it within himself. The whole question on which he had exhausted life, and more than life, looked like a delusion.
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