[The Colossus by Opie Read]@TWC D-Link bookThe Colossus CHAPTER XXXIII 2/10
Isn't that an anomaly, and isn't such an anomaly a strange thing? But will the outcome of that vague something cause us to hold you at a cooler length from us--will that 'I told you so' result in your banishment? Shall we send a Roger Williams over the hills ?" "John, what are you trying to get at ?" Richmond asked. McGlenn looked serenely at him.
"Have you devoured your usual quota of pickles? If so, writhe in your misery until I have dined." "I writhe, not with what I have eaten, but at what I see.
Is there a more distressing sight than an epicure--or a gourmand, rather--with a ragged purse ?" "Oh, yes; a stuffer, a glutton without a purse." Richmond laughed.
"Hunger may force a man to apparent gluttony," he said, "and a sandbagger may have taken his purse; and all on his part is honesty.
But there is pretense--which I hold is not honest--in an effort to be an epicure." "Ah, which you hold is not honest.
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