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Cringer, while really harming his own cause by prolonging her evidence, inflicted no slight punishment on the most troublesome witness he had ever had to deal with. The next morning it all came over again with increased disagreeableness. "Erica always was the plucky one," said Tom to his mother as they watched her enter the witness box. "She always did the confessing when we got into scrapes.
"Listen" the words came in quick, rasping breaths. "She is not mine . . . it was at night . . . they brought her . . . ward o' the court . . . lands . . . they wanted me." There was a sharp pause, a shivering whisper. "I didn't poison her" the dying man caught convulsively at my hands "I swear I had no thought of harming her. . . . They . . . paid. . . . I fled. . . ."
Religion alone can explain to us what without its help man cannot comprehend: why, for what cause, kind and noble beings able to find happiness in life not merely harming no one but necessary to the happiness of others are called away to God, while cruel, useless, harmful persons, or such as are a burden to themselves and to others, are left living.
We are well suited he and I. In another walk of life we might have been a pair of swindlers, playing into each other's hands....And yet I don't believe we're worse than most people. Why, most people do these things without a thought of their being unprincipled. And, after all, I'm not harming anybody, am I? That is, anybody but myself."
Sahwah felt that she had made a misstep somewhere, and was harming Veronica's cause instead of helping it, but the eyes of the agent seemed to be drawing all her knowledge from her like a magnet picking up needles. "I meant," said Sahwah, "that she often has those sick headaches, and when she does she generally goes out walking to cure them." "And these headaches generally occur at night?" "Yes."
Indeed, so earnest was she that she did not give him time, but immediately went on: "Just think, John! Instead of giving out in these charities and philanthropies I never did believe in them they're bound to be more or less degrading to the people that take, and when it's so hard to help a friend with money without harming him, how much harder it must be to help strangers.
Nobody could harm you without harming me, too." He did not notice that her hand stiffened in his at those words. "When we've been together awhile we'll both realize in wonderful ways what it means really to be united. When you've laid your head on my shoulder a great many times, or against my heart, the very blood in my veins will be the blood in your veins. I can't explain it.
I would even stretch a point rather than chance harming an American; but you will admit that the evidence is all against you. You were found in the very building where Drontoff was known to stay while in Burgova. The young woman whose mother keeps the place directed our officer to your room, and you tried to escape, which I do not think that an innocent American would have done.
Soon, without further harming the three men, the others scattered about among the trees near the shore, leaving the three sitting on the ground very sad-looking, but with their hands now untied.
But far from harming his mystic undertakings, this book favors them in this sense, that, corrected by his later work, he will become honest and exemplary; and the gold that he has received in payment, which would not have been paid to him for a more chaste volume, will serve for a pilgrimage to Assisi." Madame Martin asked how much of this story was really true.
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