The Way We Live Now eBook

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The Way We Live Now eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,349 pages of information about The Way We Live Now.
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himself to think that an injury should be forgiven unless the man who did the injury repented of his own injustice.  As to giving his coat to the thief who had taken his cloak,—­he told himself that were he and others to be guided by that precept honest industry would go naked in order that vice and idleness might be comfortably clothed.  If any one stole his cloak he would certainly put that man in prison as soon as possible and not commence his lenience till the thief should at any rate affect to be sorry for his fault.  Now, to his thinking, Paul Montague had stolen his cloak, and were he, Roger, to give way in this matter of his love, he would be giving Paul his coat also.  No!  He was bound after some fashion to have Paul...

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