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"He that is down need fear no fall, / He that is low, no pride," said Lester Knapp aloud to himself. It was a great pleasure to him to be able to say the strong short Saxon words aloud. For years he had been shutting into the cage of silence all the winged beautiful words which came flying into his mind! And beautiful words which you do not pronounce aloud are like children always forced to "be quiet" and "sit still. " They droop and languish.
But before this it would have been too foolish to repeat the lovely lines that came into his mind. What would Harvey Bronson have thought to hear "the army of unalterable law" pronounced in the office of Willing's Emporium? Lester Knapp smiled to himself at the idea! And if it hadn't been Harvey Bronson at hand it would have been someone else just as scandalized.