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Updated: May 17, 2025

So I buy apples and oranges from the imploring-looking girls; it's the easiest way of getting rid of them. The little change don't amount to much in a day, and I save my nerves and my digestion at a cheap rate." Mr. Holworthy smiled at Easelmann's notion of his own hard-heartedness, and said, hesitatingly, "I am afraid that some professedly charitable persons don't do so much."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859