[At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookAt the Back of the North Wind CHAPTER VI 5/12
Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other.
It can't be like you." "Ah! but which is me? I can't be two mes, you know." "No.
Nobody can be two mes." "Well, which me is me ?" "Now I must think.
There looks to be two." "Yes.
That's the very point .-- You can't be knowing the thing you don't know, can you ?" "No." "Which me do you know ?" "The kindest, goodest, best me in the world," answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. "Why am I good to you ?" "I don't know." "Have you ever done anything for me ?" "No." "Then I must be good to you because I choose to be good to you." "Yes." "Why should I choose ?" "Because--because--because you like." "Why should I like to be good to you ?" "I don't know, except it be because it's good to be good to me." "That's just it; I am good to you because I like to be good." "Then why shouldn't you be good to other people as well as to me ?" "That's just what I don't know.
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