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go on, go on. You entertain me more than I like to confess."
"I am glad of that. (You will not mind my lying a little, to keep in
practice.) Look here; not to be too personal, I think you are about the
shabbiest and most contemptible little shriveled-up reptile that can be
imagined. I am grateful enough that you are invisible to other people,
for I should die with shame to be seen with such a mildewed monkey of a
conscience as you are. Now if you were five or six feet high, and--"
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Oh, come! who is to blame?"
I don't know."
Why, you are; nobody else."
Confound you, I wasn't consulted about your personal appearance."
I don't care, you had a good deal to do with it, nevertheless. When you
were eight or nine years old, I was seven feet high, and as pretty as a
picture."
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I wish you had died young! So you have grown the wrong way, have you?"
Some of us grow one way and some the other. You had a large conscience
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once; if you've a small conscience now I reckon there are reasons for
it. However, both of us are to blame, you and I. You see, you used to be
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