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It proved a curse to him as long as he lived, and never a curse like it
was inflicted upon any man's heirs--"
"
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I'm bound to say there's more or less truth--"
It began to curse me when I was a baby, and it has cursed every hour of
my life to this day--"
"Lord, lord, but it's so! Time and again my wife--"
"I depended on it all through my boyhood and never tried to do an honest
stroke of work for my living--"
"
Right again--but then you--"
"I have chased it years and years as children chase butterflies. We
might all have been prosperous, now; we might all have been happy, all
these heart-breaking years, if we had accepted our poverty at first and
gone contentedly to work and built up our own wealth by our own toil and
sweat--"
"It's so, it's so; bless my soul, how often I've told Si Hawkins--"
"Instead of that, we have suffered more than the damned themselves
suffer! I loved my father, and I honor his memory and recognize his good
intentions; but I grieve for his mistaken ideas of conferring happiness
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