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We and the World, Part I

CHAPTER XII
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But you haven't told us about the boy, for all you've said." "About this boy," said Moses, "a proverb will be shorter than my jaw.
'The son of the house is not a servant for ever.' As to the other--he was taken for charity and dismissed for theft, is it not so?
He came from the dirt, and he went back to the dirt.

They often do.

Why should I be civil to him ?" What reply Mr.Burton would have made to this question I had no opportunity of judging.

My uncle called him, and he ran hastily up-stairs.

And when he had gone, the Jew came slowly out, and crossed the office as if he were going into the street.


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