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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XXXVI
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But, Lord! they are useless trash.

White convicts is useless enough; think what black niggers must be!" How about the gentleman in bed?
I thought; but he was snoring comfortably.
"I am a free man myself," continued the old man.

"I never did aught, ay, or thought o' doing aught, that an honest man should not do.

But I've lived among convicts twenty odd year, and do you know, sir, sometimes I hardly know richt fra wrang.

Sometimes I see things that whiles I think I should inform of, and then the devil comes and tells me it would be dishonourable.


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