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She was ground between the millstones of his going or staying. If he stayed they would come for him; if he went, they would apprehend him before he was ten miles from the house. "Jim, we got to think. If there’s a chance in a thousand that you can get away, you got to take it; if there ain’t, the children mustn’t know. We got to think it out!" "There ain’t a chance in a thousand, old girl.
She avoided using the verb “to steal,” because it always made her brother uncomfortable. For Stevie was delicately honest. He had been always easily impressed by speeches. He was impressed and startled now, and his intelligence was very alert. “What?” he asked at once anxiously. “Not even if they were hungry? Mustn’t they?” The two had paused in their walk.
And he said it was very kind of me to think of it; but I mustn’t do anything, and he advised me to read a book he gave me, and—and I mustn’t think of it, really, Mr Beveridge.” To himself Mr Beveridge repeated under his breath, “Archbishops, bishops, deacons, curates, fast in Lent, and an anthem after the Creed. I think I remember enough to pass.”
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