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The March Family Trilogy

PART FIFTH
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I knew you would sympathize--I knew you would feel as I do.

Oh, how can anybody help honoring those poor men for standing by one another as they do?
They are risking all they have in the world for the sake of justice! Oh, they are true heroes! They are staking the bread of their wives and children on the dreadful chance they've taken! But no one seems to understand it.

No one seems to see that they are willing to suffer more now that other poor men may suffer less hereafter.

And those wretched creatures that are coming in to take their places--those traitors--" "We can't blame them for wanting to earn a living, Miss Vance," said Conrad.
"No, no! I don't blame them.

Who am I, to do such a thing?
It's we--people like me, of my class--who make the poor betray one another.
But this dreadful fighting--this hideous paper is full of it!" She held up an extra, crumpled with her nervous reading.


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