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Peter

CHAPTER I
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You will when you're my age." I had it in my mind to tell him that the inside of a dry tent had some advantages over the outside of a damp tomb, so far as entertaining one's friends, even in hot weather, was concerned, but I was afraid it might stop the flow of his thoughts, and checked myself.
"It is not so much the rest and quiet that delights me, as the feeling that I am walled about for the moment and protected; jerked out of the whirlpool, as it were, and given a breathing spell.

On these afternoons the old church becomes a church once more--not a gate to bar out the rush of commercialism.

See where she stands--quite out to the very curb, her warning finger pointing upward.

'Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther,' she cries out to the Four Per Cents.

'Hug up close to me, you old fellows asleep in your graves; get under my lea.


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