[The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On by Eugene Manlove Rhodes]@TWC D-Link bookThe Desire of the Moth; and The Come On CHAPTER V 4/17
I fought the good fight, I kept the faith, but I did not finish my course.
But to return to our sheep. "In every crisis, I have always found precedent for action in the words of the immortal Swan of Avon.
What does Will say? He says: '_Put money in thy purse_!' "Follows naturally the advice of the melancholy Dane, bearing directly on the case in hand: '_Let it work. 'For 'tis the sport to see the engineer Hoist with his own petard._' "Again, '_Look on this picture, then on that! The counterfeit_.' "Where is that counterfeit, anyhow ?" He took from his pocket a good silver dollar, compared it thoughtfully with the bad one on the table, and continued. "What else? Why, this: '_Art thou not horribly afeared ?...
Could the world pick thee three such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower ?'_ "Having thus pointed out the danger, he plainly indicates the remedy: '_Where shall I find one that will steal well? O! for a fine thief of the age of two-or-three and twenty! I am heinously unprovided_.' "Gentlemen, in my opinion we need three things.
First, the services of a skillful and discreet silversmith.
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