THE UNDYING THING
'But of course, my dear fellow, I'll do it with pleasure.'
'I'm ashamed to give you all this bother. However, you said that you were coming here to help me, and I take you at your word. By the way, I think you'd better not say anything to Ray about the Hal's Planting story.'
'I may be some of the things that you take me for, but really I am not a common ass. Of course I shouldn't tell her.'
'I'll tell her myself, and I'd sooner do it when I've got the whole thing cleared up. Well, I'm really obliged to you.'
'I needn't remind you that I hope to receive as much again. I believe in compensation. Nature always gives it and always requires it. One finds it everywhere, in philology and onwards.'
'I could mention omissions.'
'They are few, and make a belief in a hereafter to supply them logical.'
'Lunatics, for instance?'
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