When he dared 10 return he resum
ed (he practice of law in New York,
and soon became entangled in many
scandals and intrigues. When he was
seventy years old he was still hand
some and fitijagmg, and so beguiled a
French countess of great wealth that
she married him. He wasted her
money sd lavishly that she separated
from him in a short while and he was
left penniless. His few friends aban
doned him and he died degraded and
disgraced at the age of four score
years. In his last days he read the
Bible anew read and rondtred, and
with sadness and contrition said:
"There is the most perfect system of
truth the world has ever seen." What
a life, what a record, what a wreck of
great talents, and ail because he for
sook the teachings of his noble, Chris
tian ancestors and became a scoffer,
an infidel, a Chesterfield. What bitter
memories what anguish he must have
felt in his last days his last hours,
when he begged to be buried at Prince
ton by the grave of his father. Verily
it seems hke Providence followed him
wih an avenging hand a.r.d heaped
misery upon him all his life.
