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It is sometimes taught that men do the furious and desperate thing from an emotion that is as even and placid as the thoughts of a village clergyman on Sunday afternoon. Usually, however, it is to be believed that a panther is at the time born in the heart, and that the subject does not resemble a man picking mulberries.
"B' G -- -- ! " said Bill, speaking as from a throat filled with dust, "I'll go after 'em in a minute."