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Most public characters have their failings; and the truth is that Mr Snevellici was a little addicted to drinking; or, if the whole truth must be told, that he was scarcely ever sober. He knew in his cups three distinct stages of intoxication, - the dignified - the quarrelsome - the amorous. When professionally engaged he never got beyond the dignified; in private circles he went to all three, passing from one to another with a rapidity of transition often rather perplexing to those who had not the honour of his acquaintance.