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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER V
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And after the manner of the average man, whose ambition is to command events, he began to mistrust such a gratuitous and accidental success--just because it seemed forced upon him.

The practical value of success depends not a little on the way you look at it.

But Fate looks at nothing.

It has no discretion.

He no longer considered it eminently desirable all round to establish publicly the identity of the man who had blown himself up that morning with such horrible completeness.


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