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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XV
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And now--and yet you talk to me of justice.' 'And if he had injured you, Harry, would you not forgive him?
Do you repeat your prayers without thinking of them?
Do you not wish to forgive them that trespass against you ?' Norman groaned inwardly in the spirit.

'Do you not think of this when you kneel every night before your God ?' 'There are injuries which a man cannot forgive, is not expected to forgive.' 'Are there, Harry?
Oh! that is a dangerous doctrine.

In that way every man might nurse his own wrath till anger would make devils of us all.

Our Saviour has made no exceptions.' 'In one sense, I do forgive him, Mrs.Woodward.I wish him no evil.

But it is impossible that I should call a man who has so injured me my friend.


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