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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER IX
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Yes, John, I call it impudently interfering.

I gave way to you this time to prevent a police scene, but I will never do it again! Never!" "You will never go into such a den of iniquity again.

Never! Mind that! The dead and the living both will block your way.

We Hattons have been honest men in all our generations.

Sons of the soil, taking our living from the land on which we lived in some way or other--never before from dirty cards in dirty hands and shuffled about in roguery, treachery, and robbery.


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