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The Gilded Age
Part 5.

CHAPTER XLIII
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'Iniquitous' does not exasperate anybody; it is weak--puerile.
The ignorant will imagine it to be intended for a compliment.

But this other one--the one I read last--has the true ring: 'This vile, dirty effort to rob the public treasury, by the kites and vultures that now infest the filthy den called Congress'-- that is admirable, admirable! We must have more of that sort.

But it will come--no fear of that; they're not warmed up, yet.

A week from now you'll see." "Uncle, you and Brother Balaam are bosom friends--why don't you get his paper to persecute us, too ?" "It isn't worth while, my, daughter.

His support doesn't hurt a bill.
Nobody reads his editorials but himself.


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