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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER IV
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Greenwood says they are worse; but I'm not standing on what he says.

Thy father despised them, that is a fact I can rely on and work from." "Father is dead, and he----" "Not he! He is living, and more alive than he ever was.

He comes to me often." "When you are asleep, I suppose." "You suppose right.

But, Harry, can you tell me what passes in that state of sleep when I or you or any other sleeper is shut up from every human eye; when all the doors of the body are closed, and all the windows darkened?
Speak, my lad, of what you know something about, but dreaming is a mystery to far wiser men than you are, or are likely to be--unless Wisdom should visit you while you are dreaming." "Well, mother, I am going away for a year, and during that time I shall forget the Naylors and they will forget me." "Whatever are you talking about, Harry Hatton?
I will not hear of you going on such a journey--no matter where to, so now you know." "It is John's advice." "It is very poor advice.

For steady living in, there is no place like Yorkshire." "I was telling John today what I have often told you, how I hated the mill, how sick it made me, and that I must sell my interest in it in order to do something else.


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