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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER IV
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I know even less than you do, for I know more.
Pardon my rather complicated phrase, Haggart, but the tongue responds with so much difficulty not only to our feeling, but also to our thought." "You are polite," mutters Haggart agitated.

"You are polite and always calm.

You are always sad and you have a thin hand with rings upon it, and you speak like a very important personage.

Who are you, sir ?" "I am he whom you called--the one who is always sad." "When I come, you are already here; when I go away, you remain.

Why do you never want to go with me, sir ?" "There is one way for you, Haggart, and another for me." "I see you only at night.


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