"
It continues thus:
"I herewith take my final leave of them and the world. I
have lived an honest and useful life to mankind; my time has
been spent in doing good and I die in perfect composure and
resignation to the will of my Creator God."
Such was the last will and testament of "Tom Paine, Infidel."
CHAPTER VI
_Pages of Romance_
In the resolute spirit of another Andor Andorra, the Village
of Greenwich maintains its independence in the very midst of
the city of New York--submitting to no more of a compromise
in the matter of its autonomy than is evolved in the
Procrustean sort of splicing which has hitched fast the
extremities of its tangled streets to the most readily
available streets in the City Plan. The flippant
carelessness with which this apparent union has been
effected only serves to emphasise the actual separation. In
almost every case these ill-advised couplings are productive
of anomalous disorder, which in the case of the numbered
streets they openly travesty the requirements of communal
propriety and of common-sense: as may be inferred from the
fact that within this disjointed region Fourth Street
crosses Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth streets very nearly at
right angles--to the permanent bewilderment of nations and
to the perennial confusion of mankind.
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