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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XXXVIII
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He sleeps under Mr.Goren's roof: he (since one cannot be too positive in citing the punishment of such a Pagan) stands behind a counter: he (and, oh! choke, young loves, that have hovered around him! shrink from him in natural horror, gentle ladies!) handles the shears.

It is not my fault.

He would be a Pagan.

If you can think him human enough still to care to know how he feels it, I must tell you that he feels it hardly-at all.

After a big blow, a very little one scarcely counts.


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