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The March Family Trilogy

PART FIFTH
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We might have saved a little more than we have saved; but the little more wouldn't avail if I were turned out of my place now; and we should have lived sordidly to no purpose.

Some one always has you by the throat, unless you have some one else in your grip.

I wonder if that's the attitude the Almighty intended His respectable creatures to take toward one another! I wonder if He meant our civilization, the battle we fight in, the game we trick in! I wonder if He considers it final, and if the kingdom of heaven on earth, which we pray for--" "Have you seen Lindau to-day ?" Mrs.March asked.
"You inferred it from the quality of my piety ?" March laughed, and then suddenly sobered.

"Yes, I saw him.

It's going rather hard with him, I'm afraid.


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