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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER IV
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You must stay away a year.

I want you to realize above all things that to live to _amuse_ yourself is the hardest work the devil can set you to do." "I promised Fred Naylor I would rent him my share." "How dared you make such a promise?
Did you think that I, standing as I do, for my father, Stephen Hatton, would ever lower the Hatton name to Hatton and Naylor?
I am ashamed of you, Harry! I am that!" "John, I am so unhappy in the mill.

You don't understand--" "Your duty is in the mill.

If a man does his duty, he cannot be unhappy.
No, he can not." "I have been doing my duty five years, and hating every hour of it.

And I promised the Naylor boys--" "What ?" "That I would sell or rent my share in this mill to them." "It is impossible for you to keep that promise.


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