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A Cigarette-Maker’s Romance

CHAPTER V
19/28

I do not speak of any personal prejudice against the mere act of running away, considered as an immediate means of escape from disagreeable circumstances, with the hope of ultimate immunity from all unpleasant consequences.

That is a matter of early education." "I had very little early education," observed Dumnoff.

"And none at all afterwards." "My friend, it is not for you and me to enter into the history of our misfortunes.

We have met in the vat of poverty to be seethed alike in the brew of unhappiness.

We have sat at the same daily labour, we have shared often the same fare, but there is that in each of us which we can keep sacred from the contamination of confidence, and which will withstand even the thrusts of poverty.


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