Explain the conflicted theme in "The Wieland" by Charles Brockden Brown from this passage.  I listened to this dialogue in silence. The words uttered by the person without, affected me as somewhat singular, but what chiefly rendered them remarkable, was the tone that accompanied them. It was wholly new. My brother's voice and Pleyel's were musical and energetic. I had fondly imagined, that, in this respect, they were surpassed by none. Now my mistake was detected. I cannot pretend to communicate the impression that was made upon me by these accents, or to depict the degree in which force and sweetness were blended in them. They were articulated with a distinctness that was unexampled in my experience. But this was not all. The voice was not only mellifluent and clear, but the emphasis was so just, and the modulation so impassioned, that it seemed as if an heart of stone could not fail of being moved by it. It imparted to me an emotion altogether involuntary and incontroulable. When he uttered the words "for charity's sweet sake," I dropped the cloth that I held in my hand, my heart overflowed with sympathy, and my eyes with unbidden tears.

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Explain the conflicted theme in "The Wieland" by Charles Brockden Brown from this passage. 

I listened to this dialogue in silence. The words uttered by the person without, affected me as
somewhat singular, but what chiefly rendered them remarkable, was the tone that accompanied them.
It was wholly new. My brother's voice and Pleyel's were musical and energetic. I had fondly imagined,
that, in this respect, they were surpassed by none. Now my mistake was detected. I cannot pretend to
communicate the impression that was made upon me by these accents, or to depict the degree in which
force and sweetness were blended in them. They were articulated with a distinctness that was
unexampled in my experience. But this was not all. The voice was not only mellifluent and clear, but the
emphasis was so just, and the modulation so impassioned, that it seemed as if an heart of stone could
not fail of being moved by it. It imparted to me an emotion altogether involuntary and incontroulable.
When he uttered the words "for charity's sweet sake," I dropped the cloth that I held in my hand, my
heart overflowed with sympathy, and my eyes with unbidden tears.
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