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The Half-Hearted

CHAPTER V
11/19

It's the very chance we were wishing for." Then he added with a cheerful face, "I begin to think better of human nature.

Here were we abusing the poor man as a defaulter, and ten minutes after he heaps coals of fire on our heads.

There can't be much truth in what that newspaper says, or he wouldn't want his friends down to spoil sport." "I wonder what he'll be like?
Wratislaw saw him in town, but only for a little, and he notices nothing.

He's rather famous now, you know, and we may expect to find him very dignified and wise.

He'll be able to teach us most things, and we'll have to listen with proper humility." "I'll give you fifty to one he's nothing of the kind," said George.


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