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The Confessions of Artemas Quibble

CHAPTER III
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Oh, it's terrible to think what that poor injured young man will suffer.

To-day he may feel quite well, but to-morrow he will have all kinds of pains in his head and eyes, his spine will ache, he will experience symptoms of a nervous breakdown.

He will retire to bed and not emerge for six months, and when he does he'll be a hopeless and helpless cripple for life.
Tom is an artist, he is, in his own line.

They tell me he made sixty thousand last year out of his accident practice alone.

Why, the case he gave you twenty to keep out of may net him five thousand dollars." "If I'd known that it would have cost him fifty!" I said, feeling that an unjust advantage had been taken of me.
"Twenty is the regular rate," answered Gottlieb.


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