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The Shoulders of Atlas

CHAPTER XVI
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"When you've lived long enough in one sort of a world it settles onto your shoulders, and nothing but death can ease a man from the weight of it." "That's so," said the boy.
"But as far as keeping the bread from another man goes--" said Henry.
Then he hesitated.

He was tainted by the greed for unnecessary money, in spite of his avowal to the contrary.

That also had come to be a part of him.

Then he continued, "As far as that goes, I'm willing to give away--a--good part of what I earn." The first man laughed, harshly.

"He'll be for giving a library to East Westland next, to make up to men for having their money and freedom in his own pockets," he said.
"I 'ain't got so much as all that, after all," said Henry.


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