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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER IV
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Do you think I will take in his sons, and let them share our father's good name, and the profits of the wonderful business he built up?
I say _no_! A downright, upright _no_! Why, Harry, you must be off your head to think of such a thing as possible.

It is enough to make father come back from the grave." "You are talking nonsense, John.

If father is in heaven, he wouldn't come back here about an old mill full of weariness and hatred and wretched lives; and if he isn't in heaven, he wouldn't be let come back.
I am not afraid of father now." "If you must sell or rent your share, I will make shift to buy or lease it.

Then what do you mean to do ?" "Mr.Fred Naylor is going to coach me for horse-racing.

You know I love horses, and Naylor says they will make me more money than I can count." "Don't you tell me anything the Naylors say.


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