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" These children belong to some laborer. Their father
is probably a poor devil, who works twelve hours a day,
and is so ignorant as not to know that half of what he
buys is fraudulent."
" Yes," retorted Athothis; " their parents wonder why
the children do not grow fat and healthy with such an
abundance of food."
" Who can reform this terrible state of affairs ?" cried
Paulus Androeydes, despairingly.
" When the moral sense is cultivated as much as the
modern commercial instinct, these matters will be
reformed," replied Athothis.
" Let us leave this place," murmured Paulus Andro-
eydes. " My spiritual heart is heavy."
" Ha! ha ! ha !" laughed Athothis, as they fairly spun
through the air. " I would teach you much, could I but
tarry with you a few hours longer, but my time is almost
up."
