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| a few pounds got by selling a good old servant into hard work and misery would canker all the rest of his money, and he thought the kindest thing he could do for the fine old fellow would be to put a sure bullet through his head, and then he would never suffer more; for he did not know where to find a kind master for the rest of his days. The last, that it is the canker and ruin of many men's estates; which, in process of time, breeds a public poverty. The one and only failure of his life had eaten like canker into his heart. |
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