I’d like you to consider one question, please. I don’t ask you to answer me; in fact, I ask you not to. But you will have to answer it to yourself, and honestly.” The sheer gall of the wretch, exhorting a gentleman to honesty. “Go on.” “You’ve come here at the cost of a guinea when your own time is evidently worth something, on a filthy night,” Lazarus said. “I don’t think you’ve done that out of an urge to tell me you don’t believe in me. I think there is something you need. You may not want to believe that. I suspect you have persuaded yourself there’s a completely different reason. But you
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