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Foes

CHAPTER XX
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I did not." "At all times it is the liar's wont still to lie.

Small things or great--use or no use!" "I am a prisoner and unarmed.

You are the captor.

To insult lies in your power." "That is a jargon that may be dropped between us.

Yet I, too, am bound by conventions! Seeing that you are a prisoner, and not my prisoner only, I cannot give you your sword or pistols, and we cannot fight....
The fighting, too, is a convention.


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