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"If I have taken the common clay / And wrought it cunningly / In the shape of a god that was digged a clod, / The greater honour to me. " / "If thou hast taken the common clay, / And thy hands be not free / From the taint of the soil, thou hast made thy spoil / The greater shame to thee. "- / _The Two Potters_.
He did no work of any kind for the rest of the week. Then came another Sunday. He dreaded and longed for the day always, but since the red-haired girl had sketched him there was rather more dread than desire in his mind.