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The Innocents Abroad
Part 3 of 6

CHAPTER XXV
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Their noble efforts cost many of them their lives.

They laid them down cheerfully, and well they might.

Creeds mathematically precise, and hair-splitting niceties of doctrine, are absolutely necessary for the salvation of some kinds of souls, but surely the charity, the purity, the unselfishness that are in the hearts of men like these would save their souls though they were bankrupt in the true religion--which is ours.
One of these fat bare-footed rascals came here to Civita Vecchia with us in the little French steamer.

There were only half a dozen of us in the cabin.

He belonged in the steerage.


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