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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
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I am not sorry: therefore, I am innocent.

Is the proposition a fair one ?" The excellent Doctor admitted that it was not to be contested.
"And wherefore, sir, should I have sorrow," the Boy resumed, "for ridding the world of a sordid worm;* of a man whose very soul was dross, and who never had a feeling for the Truthful and the Beautiful?
When I stood before my uncle in the moonlight, in the gardens of the ancestral halls of the De Barnwells, I felt that it was the Nemesis come to overthrow him.

'Dog,' I said to the trembling slave, 'tell me where thy Gold is.

THOU hast no use for it.

I can spend it in relieving the Poverty on which thou tramplest; in aiding Science, which thou knowest not; in uplifting Art, to which thou art blind.


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