How must his willful calumniators turn, not only in bitter disappointment, after the defeat of their criminal efforts, but with self-loathing, from the contemplation of a character which makes their perfidy appear doubly hideous by contrast.
He rhetorically describes the self-loathing his calumniators must feel as their perfidy is exposed by his character.
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