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‘“I’m weary of enduring now,” I replied, “and I’d be glad of a retaliation that wouldn’t recoil on myself; but treachery, and violence, are spears pointed at both ends — they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.”
‘Like him?’ I exclaimed. ‘The worst-tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into his teens!
he was a model of a jailer — surly, and dumb, and deaf to every attempt at moving his sense of justice or compassion.
