O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.''Forgive you! 0, la, la, la!' cunningly cried the droll, and strutting like an actor. 'Forgiveness is easy, is it not? O, yes, it is nothing. You are a young woman full of pride. O. Yes! - but that is nothing. And full of penitence, and that is nothing, too. Pride is nothing, penitence nothing, forgiveness nothing, but even a bargain in farthings must be paid to be made, and I am a plain business man. What costs nothing brings no balm, and you would not like that, you would not like that, now would you?' (The Bogey Man)
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Down the hill I went, and then,I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and coolWakened ecstasy
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Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' (The Bogey Man)
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