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For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. There's not a lump as big as a pin--except backbone lumps, and you can only feel them because you're thin. The more earnest members of his family never forgave him, and knew that his children, though scarcely English of the dreadful sort, would never be German to the backbone. |
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