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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE NINTH
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"I despise a wealthy idler," I said to Oscar, with my republican severity.

"You want the ennobling influence of labor to make a man of you.

Nobody has a right to be idle--nobody has a right to be rich.
You would be in a more wholesome state of mind about yourself, my young gentleman, if you had to earn your bread and cheese before you ate it." He stared at me piteously.

The noble sentiments which I had inherited from Doctor Pratolungo, completely bewildered Mr.Oscar Dubourg.
"Don't be angry with me," he said, in his innocent way.

"I couldn't eat my cheese, if I did earn it.


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