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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XLII
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To see a young fellow like that with such a PHYSIQUE--and God only knows what undeveloped qualities in him, only ripe for the gallows at five-and-twenty, is enough to make the angels weep.

He knows no evil but physical pain, and that he considers but a temporary one.

He knows no good save, perhaps, to be faithful to his confederates.

He has been brought up from his cradle to look on every man as his enemy.

He never knew what it was to love a human being in his life.


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