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Phyllis of Philistia

CHAPTER XI
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Could anything be more absurd than that about the slaves?
Slaves! Dynamite!" "Leading up to subscriptions--don't forget that," said her father.

"If subscriptions are to be forthcoming, they must be got up.

Traffic in human flesh, insults to aborigines, Siberia, the conversion of the Jews--all these appeal directly to the pockets of the Great English People.

Any one of them will constitute an excellent peg on which to hang an appeal to the pocket.

Those two distinguished pioneers of--well, shall we say civilization or Nonconformity ?--understand their business, my dear." "It is no part of their business to try and hold a brave man up to the execration of everyone." "I'm not so sure of that.


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