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I wish you wouldn't. I wouldn't like to mess up your plans, you
know. But I might--out of sheer funk and misery."
"
"
"
You'd better not," said the Voice, with quiet emphasis.
I wish I was dead," said Marvel.
It ain't justice," he said; "you must admit.... It seems to me I've
a perfect right--"
"
Get on!" said the Voice.
Mr. Marvel mended his pace, and for a time they went in silence
again.
"It's devilish hard," said Mr. Marvel.
This was quite ineffectual. He tried another tack.
"What do I make by it?" he began again in a tone of unendurable
wrong.
"
Oh! shut up!" said the Voice, with sudden amazing vigour. "I'll
see to you all right. You do what you're told. You'll do it all
right. You're a fool and all that, but you'll do--"
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