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“Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?”
“While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.”
“We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself...”