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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 211

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or a god. Alas ! I cried, this is no place for me!Well suited with a fakirs hut I d be.The darkest corner of these endless hallsFor me would furnish forth sufficient walls.And were this paradise, I w^ould not stayWhile my dear wife and boy are far away! Your lordships family, a slave replied, Await… … Let me return, I begged, to my real state-— I have no wish to live among the great. No, no ! cried Jaffier. Turn about s fairplay.Remember our debate the other day:You claimed that riches were but held intrust ■895] TAFFIERS FRIEND. 199 As means to aid the good or shield the just.T was theory—mere…

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