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Conscience

CHAPTER IV
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There is no hurry." "But I am in a hurry because, if I do not pay Jardine, I shall find myself in the street, which would not be a position to offer to a wife." "In the street?
Oh, things will not come to such a pass as that! What are the prosecutions ?" "They will soon begin; Jardine has already threatened me." "They are going to begin?
Then they have not begun.

If he does, as we presume he will, proceed by a replevin, we shall have sufficient time before the judgment.

Do you owe anything to your landlord ?" "The lease expired on the fifteenth." "Do not pay it." "That is easy; it is the only thing that is easy for me to do." "It is an obstacle in the way of your Jardine, and may stop him a moment.

We can manage this way more easily.

The important thing is to warn me as soon as the fire begins.


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