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The Squire of Sandal-Side

CHAPTER V
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He is robbing me, robbing his mother, robbing Sophia and you." "William, I wouldn't give way to temper that road; calling your own son and my son a thief.

It's not fair," said Mrs.Sandal, with considerable asperity.
"I must call things by their right names, Alice.

I call a cat, a cat; and I call our Harry a thief; for I don't know that forcing money from a father is any better than forcing it from a stranger.

It is only using a father's love as a pick-lock instead of an iron tool.

That's all the difference, Alice; and I don't think the difference is one that helps Harry's case much.


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