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The Half-Hearted

CHAPTER XII
20/27

"Is the great Lewis ashamed of himself ?" "Not a bit.

I would do it again, for it is my nature to, as the hymn says.

I am cut all the wrong way, and my mind is my mind, you know.
But I can't expect Miss Wishart to take that point of view." His aunt shook a hopeless head.

"Your moral nature is warped, my dear.
It has always been the same since you were a very small boy at Glenavelin, and read the Holy War on the hearthrug.

You could never be made to admire Emmanuel and his captains, but you set your heart on the reprobates Jolly and Griggish.


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