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CHAPTER XXIV
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Every word you spoke would be a falsehood.

Oh, can't you see that, as plainly as the light of day?
The results of your work! Why, nothing you could possibly do with all this money would be one-half as good as to let everyone know that you honourably gave it up when it was in your power dishonestly to keep it! Oh, surely _that_ is the kind of example that the world needs! What causes all the misery but dishonesty and selfishness?
If you do away with that, you gain all you are working for.

The example! You should prize the opportunity.

You are deceiving yourself; it is a temptation that you are yielding to.

Think a moment; you will see that I am right.
You cannot do a thing so unworthy of yourself.' He stood for a moment doggedly, then replied: 'I can and I shall do it.' 'Never!' Adela rose and faced him.


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