Adam said, “Get off my place. Go on—get off. You’re acting crazy. Get off. This is my place. I bought it.” “You bought your eyes and nose,” Samuel jeered. “You bought your uprightness. You bought your thumb on sideways. Listen to me, because I’m like to kill you after. You bought! You bought out of some sweet inheritance. Think now—do you deserve your children, man?” “Deserve them? They’re here—I guess. I don’t understand you.” Samuel wailed, “God save me, Liza! It’s not the way you think, Adam! Listen to me before my thumb finds the bad place at throat. The precious twins—untried, unnoticed,
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