[The Store Boy by Horatio Alger, Jr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Store Boy CHAPTER I 2/8
"If you had a match now, I wouldn't mind letting you have a whiff or two. "I don't smoke," answered Ben, hardly able to repress a look of disgust. "So you're a good boy, eh? One of the Sunday school kids that want to be an angel, hey? Pah!" and the tramp exhibited the disgust which the idea gave him. "Yes, I go to Sunday school," said Ben coldly, feeling more and more repelled by his companion. "I never went to Sunday school," said his companion.
"And I wouldn't. It's only good for milksops and hypocrites." "Do you think you're any better for not going ?" Ben couldn't help asking. "I haven't been so prosperous, if that's what you mean.
I'm a straightforward man, I am.
You always know where to find me.
There ain't no piety about me.
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