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The Social Cancer

CHAPTER XVIII
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"You'll go to purgatory for wasting the indulgences.

You know very well that for every idle word one must suffer forty days in fire, according to the curate; for every span of thread uselessly wasted, sixty days; and for every drop of water spilled, twenty.

You'll go to purgatory." "Well, I'll know how to get out," answered Brother Pedro with sublime confidence.

"How many souls have I saved from the flames! How many saints have I made! Besides, even _in articulo mortis_ I can still earn, if I wish, at least seven plenary indulgences and shall be able to save others as I die." So saying, he strode proudly away.
Sister Rufa turned to the others: "Nevertheless, you must do as I do, for I don't lose a single day and I keep my accounts well.

I don't want to cheat or be cheated." "Well, what do you do ?" asked Juana.
"You must imitate what I do.


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