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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XLII
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Why, what does such a man regard this world as?
As the antechamber of hell, if he ever heard of such a place.
I want to know what either of us three would have been if we had had his training.

I want to know that now.

We might have been as much worse than him as a wolf is worse than an evil-tempered dog." A beautiful colley came up to the Doctor and fawned on him, looking into his face with her deep, expressive, hazel eyes.
"We must do something for that fellow, Sam.

If it's only for his name's sake," said the Doctor.
* * * * * That poor boy, sitting crouched there in the corner, with a broken jaw, and just so much of human feeling as one may suppose a polecat to have, caught in a gin, is that same baby that we saw Ellen Lee nursing on the door-step in the rain, when our poor Mary came upon her on one wild night in Exeter.
Base-born, workhouse-bred! Tossed from workhouse to prison, from prison to hulk--every man's hand against him--an Arab of society.

As hopeless a case, my lord judge, as you ever had to deal with; and yet I think, my lord, that your big heart grows a little pitiful, when you see that handsome face before you, blank and careless, and you try, fruitlessly, to raise some blush of shame, or even anger in it, by your eloquence.
Gone beyond that, my lord.


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