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Have you never observed, my good Bonaday, how fatally miracles come home to roost?
Jonah spends three days and three nights in the whale's belly--why?
Simply to get his tale believed.
_Credo quia impossibile_ seldom misses to work well for a while.
He doesn't foresee, poor fellow, that what makes his fortune with one generation of men will wreck his credit with another.

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