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"Now there's a proof of the pains of purgatory, where one day seems as long as a thousand years; and you know we oughtn't to grudge a thrifle to a fellow-crature, that we may avoid it. So you see, my friends, there's nothing like good works. You know not when or where this lad's prayers may benefit you.
"In that case, then," replied the other, "you have only one course to pursue, and that is, to bring Dalton to justice." "I know it," returned the Prophet; "but still I feel that it's a hard case to be the means of hangin' a fellow-crature; but of the two choices, rather than bear any longer what I have suffered an' am still sufferin', I think it betther to prosecute him."
Shawn has some oath of revenge to make against Woodward, because he suspects that the villain knows where poor Granua Davoren is." "Well, on that subject he may take his own coorse," replied Barney; "but as for me, Michael, I neither care nor will think of the murdher of a fellow-crature, no matther how wicked he may be, especially when I know that it is planned for him.
As I said before, if we were as they are lyin' racked with pain, burnin' with druth, the head splittin', the whole strength gone not able, maybe, to spake, and hardly able to make a sign to wake ourselves, to put a drink to our lips; suppose, I say, we wor lyin' in this state, an' that all the world had deserted us oh, wouldn't we say that any fellow-crature that had the kindness and the courage to come and aid us wet our lips, raise our heads, and cheer our sinkin' hearts by the sound of their voice alone oh, wouldn't we say that it was God that in His mercy put it into their heart to come to us, and relieve us, and save us?"
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