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The state agent is a patron of the local tavern who comes with Lawyer Giles, the Village Doctor, and Humphrey to see Ethan Brand’s return. Although he is old and wrinkled, he still dresses well. He spends his time in the bar dispensing his dry humor rather than selling tickets for the stagecoach.
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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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The Stage Agent 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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