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Mr. Scarborough’s Family

CHAPTER XVIII
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You needn't tell him, but so it must be." "If I had my way," said Dolly, after ten minutes' silence, "I would punish him.

He is an evil thing, and should be made to reap the proper reward.

It is not that I wish to avoid my share of the world's burdens, but that justice should be done.

I don't know which I hate the worst,--Uncle Carroll or Mr.Scarborough." The next day was Sunday, and Dolly was very anxious before breakfast to induce her father to say that he would go to church with her; but he was inclined to be obstinate, and fell back upon his usual excuse, saying that there were Scarborough papers which it would be necessary that he should read before he started for Tretton on the following day.
"Papa, I think it would do you good if you came." "Well, yes; I suppose it would.

That is the intention; but somehow it fails with me sometimes." "Do you think that you hate people when you go to church as much as when you don't ?" "I am not sure that I hate anybody very much." "I do." "That seems an argument for your going." "But if you don't hate them it is because you won't take the trouble, and that again is not right.


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