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XIII
OF AVARICE
Avarice was this Rival's
name, and she is the
Immoderate Desire of acquiring
and holding Riches. But
they called her by a holier
Name, so that it might not
seem that they had abandoned
me, by whose Gift they had
been raised from the Dust and
lifted up out of the Mire. So
they spake gently of her to
me, but there was Craft and
