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The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On

CHAPTER V
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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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