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He watched a sailor twisting a hawser around a bollard and wished that he had chosen a profession that dealt with things and not with people.
After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without. Very depressing reading they made these days. In her little home she found it difficult to believe in so much violence and hatred.
The lawyer hummed and hawed, not because he had any real objections but because it is a lawyer’s business to consider remote contingencies, and a straightforward agreement to anything would be wildly unprofessional. In the end he agreed that it might be done.
“Everyone can do what they want if they want it enough. But no one with impunity.
