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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XXVII
18/22

"And you don't want it, and you don't need it." "But you don't think I'm a sleep-walker, Mary ?" He had told her of his father's new plans for him, though he had not described the vigor and picturesqueness of their setting forth.

"You think I'm right ?" "A thousand times!" she cried.

"There aren't so many happy people in this world, I think--and you say you've found what makes you happy.

If it's a dream--keep it!" "The thought of going down there--into the money shuffle--I hate it as I never hated the shop!" he said.

"I hate it! And the city itself, the city that the money shuffle has made--just look at it! Look at it in winter.


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