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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Italian), Lyons, 1893.
In the cases of Eyraud and Bompard, both man and woman are idle,
vicious criminals by instinct. They come together, lead an
abandoned life, sinking lower and lower in moral degradation. In
the hour of need, crime presents itself as a simple expedient for
which neither of them has any natural aversion. The repugnance
to evil, if they ever felt it, has long since disappeared from
their natures. The man is serious, the woman frivolous, but the
criminal tendency in both cases is the same; each performs his or
her part in the crime with characteristic aptitude. Mrs. Manning
was a creature of much firmer character than her husband, a woman
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