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Idolator

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians, wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish. Hence the queer ways about him, though now some time from home.

Chapter 12, Biographical · verse 8

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