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Nor was this all; for suppose I was arrested when I was alone, there was little against me: but suppose I was taken in company with the reputed murderer, my case would begin to be grave. For generosity's sake I dared not speak my mind upon this head; but I thought of it none the less.
"Oh, he would," said Jemmy, looking with a knowing face of terror towards Tom Booth and the Prophet, "it's the weight of his cane I'd get, sure enough but it's an ould sayin' an' a true one, that when the generosity's in, it must come out. There now, I've put it in my pocket for you an' I hope you're satisfied.
Nor was this all; for suppose I was arrested when I was alone, there was little against me; but suppose I was taken in company with the reputed murderer, my case would begin to be grave. For generosity's sake I dare not speak my mind upon this head; but I thought of it none the less.
Single and entirely unmixed motives are much more rare than most people believe, I fancy. Pride and vanity have a way of dogging generosity's footsteps very closely; steadfast endurance and selfish obstinacy are nearly related; and I dare say real kindness of heart often has a place where we most of us see only reckless self-indulgence.
It furnished a lesson worth his learning that, while he abandoned himself to mirth, the coppers had showered into the hat at his feet in tinkling accompaniment to his strains; and that now the weird and mournful theme had sealed generosity's fountain as with sudden frost. The musician came at last, hat in hand, to Christopher. He was a queer figure.
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