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Comedy arrow The $30000 Bequest




The $30000 Bequest

By Mark Twain.





"I didn't mean so bad as that, Aleck; I didn't really mean immoral piety, I only meant--meant--well, conventional piety, you know; er--shop piety; the--the--why, YOU know what I mean. Aleck--the--well, where you put up that plated article and play it for solid, you know, without intending anything improper, but just out of trade habit, ancient policy, petrified custom, loyalty to--to--hang it, I can't find the right words, but YOU know what I mean, Aleck, and that there isn't any harm in it. I'll try again.  You see, it's this way.  If a person--"
 
"You have said quite enough," said Aleck, coldly; "let the subject be dropped."
 
"I'M willing," fervently responded Sally, wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking the thankfulness he had no words for. Then, musingly, he apologized to himself.  "I certainly held threes --I KNOW it--but I drew and didn't fill.  That's where I'm so often weak in the game.  If I had stood pat--but I didn't. I never do. I don't know enough."



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