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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XXIII
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Men don't break down that way at your age.

Look at ME! And I tell you, you can shake this thing off.

All you need is a little GET-up and a little gumption.

Men don't go away for YEARS and then come back into MOVING businesses like ours--they lose the strings.

And if you could, I won't let you--if you lay down on me now, I won't--and that's because if you lay down you prove you ain't the man I thought you were." He cleared his throat and finished quietly: "Roscoe, will you take a month's vacation and come back and go to it ?" "No," said Roscoe, listlessly.


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