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The Merry Men

CHAPTER V
19/29

A hint--till we have leisure--must suffice.

Now that I am once more in possession of a modest competence; now that I have so long prepared myself in silent meditation, it becomes my superior duty to proceed to Paris.

My scientific training, my undoubted command of language, mark me out for the service of my country.

Modesty in such a case would be a snare.

If sin were a philosophical expression, I should call it sinful.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.


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