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BOOK I
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Stay! Can you tell we what IS The True, The Beautiful, The Innocent, The Virtuous ?" "They are things that commence with a capital letter," said the Boy, promptly.
"Enough! Respect everything that commences with a capital letter! Respect ME!" and dropping a half-penny in the hand of the boy, he departed.
The Boy gazed fixedly at the coin.

A frightful and instantaneous change overspread his features.

His noble brow was corrugated with baser lines of calculation.

His black eye, serpent-like, glittered with suppressed passion.

Dropping upon his hands and feet, he crawled to the curbstone and hissed after the retreating form of the Baronet, the single word:-- "Bilk!".


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