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CHAPTER LXXXIX
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If you undertake to deal with men, you ought to understand just what they are." Mr.Condor smoked serenely, and General Belch looked at his slim, clean figure, and his calm face, with curious admiration.
"By-the-by," said Condor, "when you introduce the resolutions, I shall second them with a few remarks." And he did so.

At the meeting of the Committee he rose and enforced them with a few impressive and pertinent words.
"Gratitude," he said, "is instinctive in the human breast.

When a man does well, or promises well, it is natural to regard him with interest and affection.

The fidelity of our departed brother is worthy of our most affectionate admiration and imitation.

If you ask me whether he had faults, I answer that he was a man.


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