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Our Friend the Charlatan

CHAPTER XVIII
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More often, it was nobler, and by that I take my stand.
'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.' The words, you know, had then a meaning.

Now they have none.

To see God was not a little thing, I imagine, but the vision, probably, brought with it neither purple nor fine linen .-- For curiosity's sake, Dyce, read Matthew v.

to vii.


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