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"What do you do with sick prisoners here, anyway?" The keeper smiled. "Why, if they gits right sick, the hospital wagon comes and takes 'em to the Charity Hospital." "Umhum!" replied the Doctor, unpleasantly, "in the same wagon they use for a case of scarlet fever or small-pox, eh?" The keeper, with a little resentment in his laugh, stated that he would be eternally lost if he knew.
Poverty-pride: he had invented the term; it was the opposite pole to purse-pride and just as mean, no, meaner. There! Must he yet slip down? He muttered an angry word. Well, well, this was making himself a little the cheapest he had ever let himself be made. And probably this was what they wanted! Misery's revenge. Umhum! They sit down in sour darkness, eh! and make relief seek them.
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