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Sweet and pure and wholly lovely was the melody which filled the room and held the charming woman it was meant for spellbound; held the little slavey from the grime of London as one hypnotized upon her chair; sang its way out of the window, down into the grimy court between this dingy tenement and the whole row of dingy tenements which faced the other street, and made a dozen little slum-bred children pause there in their play, in wonder and delight.
So intrinsically was this slum-bred convict a scientist, that he had worked out Hamilton's law and rigidly applied it. And yet and the incident is delicious Jake Oppenheimer was intellectually honest. That night, as I was dozing off, he called me with the customary signal. "Say, Professor, you said you saw me wiggling my loose tooth. That has got my goat.
"Now, I'm not taking the case of a workman who goes on the spree on pay night and sweats the drink out of himself at work next day, nor a slum-bred brute who guzzles for the love of it; but a man with brains, who drinks to drown his intellect or his memory. He's generally a man under it all, and a sensitive, generous, gentle man with finer feelings as often as not.
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