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What guarantee?" Olwen was silent. She was not wishful of disparaging her sister or of squabbling with Charlie. "Well," said Charlie, "I must have an entirely free hand. Give it an agent if you prefer. They're a lively lot." He went about over-praising Cartref. "With the sticks and they're not rubbish," he swore, "it's worth five hundred. Three-fifty will buy the lot."
"So far from over-praising it," protested the shopman, "I was about to call your attention to a defect. It is useless as a measurer of time." "It doesn't record the exact hour, then?" asked Eastford. "Well, I suppose the truth is, they were not very particular in the old days, and time was not money, as it is now.
There is a sort of strong man mentioned in Scripture who, because he masters himself, is more than he that takes a city. But for all that he is a low lunatic, and not a hero; and of that sort were too many of the heroes whom Froude attempted to praise. A kind of instinct kept Carlyle from over-praising Henry VIII; or that highly cultivated and complicated liar, Queen Elizabeth.
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