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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXVI
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I have no doubt you would make a good husband to Miss Golightly, and that she would be very happy with you.

If you think otherwise there is an end of it; but pray do not talk so much about your honesty--your tailor would arrest you to-morrow if he heard you.' 'There are two kinds of honesty, I take it,' said Charley, speaking with suppressed anger and sorrow visible in his face, 'that which the world sees and that which it does not see.

For myself, I have nothing to say in my own defence.

I have made my bed badly, and must lie on it as it is.

I certainly will not mend it by marrying a girl that I can never love.


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