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The Mystery of Metropolisville

CHAPTER IX
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Something to make you and me ashamed of our selfishness.

Let us not judge Charlton by his green flavor.

When these discordant acids shall have ripened in the sunshine and the rain, who shall tell how good the fruit may be?
We may laugh, however, at Albert, and his school that was to be.

I do not doubt that even that visionary street-loafer known to the Athenians as Sokrates, was funny to those who looked at him from a great distance below.
During the time in which Charlton waited, and meditated his plans for the world's advancement by means of a school that should be so admirable as to modify the whole system of education by the sheer force of its example, he found it of very great advantage to unfold his plans to Miss Helen Minorkey.

Miss Helen loved to hear him talk.


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