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^rtu,-piec",tr.atfollowsthedoingofaservicetoafellow-5.helpingpeople citizen.Solputmyhandffio'ny*ui'ttoat-pocket'andsaid' iirfi ilto* *r"t tfthugh still with the uncomfortable tellng
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are asking about.

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I blushed, and said, *tanimeringl, pay you? You see mean no offence: but what ought I to don'tknowyour customs - oryour coins"'

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ask you;

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of Andtherewith I-took ahandful of money out


foreign country.
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*iti.o*u"o.io#ffi-"sht,\^IelI{:lil!11T.:11':,i::1'#'; *"v;;;#"io take' He seems such aii::J:L:::i1t-T ffi*:-n*n" i,i* rr"te over_p ayment. I wonder, by the way, whether ffi ;it;;; ;ig" " a day or two' since he is so intelligent'
I couldn't hire him
as a guide

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Therewith my new friend said thoughtfu:


that "I think I know what you mean' You think give me somethi".g you feel yourself bouna to I havg

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he has done something special

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ffio,-fu;w-trow to rnan.e it. And you e e ffi-.ffi so ii" ;;aboutthewatet' is Tvbusine,sl'Yhi"h'-::Y i'"iro,u"r. to take gifts in connectron .r d for anybody; !-L! --i ^-^+r.F migtr! ai1.tl:.: *';'' ie somethin g' then anottrll I shouldn t know i: i, ffi won t think mq rude if I say that and t frope

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iou and so on; *fr.r" to stow awa so many mementos ofhiendship"' the id'ea of being paid for his work And he laughed loud and merrily, as if to be afraid that the man was mad' was a very funny jote. f confess t began afrorgn r" Iookesane 'lf,Iilliam Mor"ris,lYa*sjo m Nowhe'e

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