“Why ask? Who should reply to such a question?--the old, old question ever offered, never answered.” “But you have hopes?” “None,” says Aaron steadily. “And I want none. I am resolved to die without fear; and he who would have no fear must have no hope.” So he departs; he, of whom the good Dr. Bellamy said: “He will soar as high to fall as low as any soul alive.” THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr, by Alfred Henry Lewis