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[C2m-project] liter withdrawn


From: Oscar Rutledge
Subject: [C2m-project] liter withdrawn
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:03:09 -0200

I could not,I would not, I dared not look at Preciosa through the spectacles.
In a world whereprize pork was the best excellence, he would have carried off all thepremiums. We are happy then, I said to myself, there is no excitement now.
Certainly, the worst use you canmake of a man is to put him in prison! I could not,I would not, I dared not look at Preciosa through the spectacles. He had orders never to show himself at that window.
His ears werepricked forward with a brisk, sensitive smartness. ButI saw at once that he was of my height, five feet four and a half.
He acceptedand used all the tickets for charity concerts which were sent to me.
From that moment to this moment he has been of no use, that one cansee, at all.
But he would plead, so humbly, to be let off, only from oneor two! Polly was skipping round the room, I guess, gay as a lark.
But one was a well ofcool, deep water, and looking suddenly in, one day, I saw the stars.
Certainly I haveheard of few men more beloved, and of none more worthy to be loved. Pondcame, all the Congregational clergymen turned out to hear him; if Dr.
But Dennis went to the next meeting,and liked it very much. It was past midnight, and our guest arose to go.
And Polly declares there was never a year when the tailoring cost solittle.
Ingham, her new dumb laundress,myself, who am Mr.
How glad I am that I can now look at her through my spectacles.
I am, or rather was, a minister, of the Sandemanian connection. We used to call it a Western town in theheart of the civilization of New England. It never occurred tohim that Dennis might be more than fourteen years old.

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