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"I have nothing to do with your scruples," said the magistrate; "the law is the law, and I am here to administer it."
Mr. Plumley licked his hand, and stolidly smoothing down his black hair with it, answered, as if at a distance, being a well-fed, unctuous man, "too full for sound and foam," "I'm a conscientious objector."