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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Because it's such an inconvenient vice to those that have anything to lose," said Miss Christie. "Yes, that's just it, ma'am. You see the vices and virtues have got overhauled again, and sorted differently to suit our convenience. Stealing's no worse probly in the eyes of our Maker than lying and slandering; not so bad, mayhap, as a deep sweer.
There is the insane desire to steal merely for stealing's sake a morbid craving. Of course in a sense it is stealing. But it is persistent, incorrigible, irrational, motiveless, useless. "Stop and think about it a moment," she concluded, lowering her voice and taking advantage of the very novelty of the situation she had created. "Such diseases are the product of civilization, of sensationalism.
Meekly Gavrilo wiped his face with his sleeve, and murmured: "Do as you will. I won't say a word. For Christ's sake, forgive me!" "Snivelling idiot! Even stealing's more than you can do!" Chelkash cried scornfully, tearing a piece of his shirt under his jacket, and without a word, clenching his teeth now and then, he began binding up his head.
"But if I if I overlook this affair, it's not to be a precedent, you understand. I intend to live at home now and look after the estate. My father will wish it." "To be sure." "And stealing's stealing. If I choose to keep my own counsel about this, you are not to suppose I shall forget it. The others suspect only, but I know; and henceforth I advise you to bear that in mind."
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