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Miss Bretherton

CHAPTER V
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But look at him well--he's a heretic, a real, genuine heretic.

Twenty years ago it would have been a thrilling sight; but now, alas! it's so common that it's not the victim but the persecutors who are the curiosity.' 'I don't know that,' said young Sartoris.

'We liberals are by no means the cocks of the walk that we were a few years ago.

You see, now we have got nothing to pull against, as it were.

So long as we had two or three good grievances, we could keep the party together and attract all the young men.


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