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I would prefer not to

“I would prefer not to,” he said, and gently disappeared behind the screen.

(The reader of nice perceptions will here perceive that, it being morn

lives, then, on ginger-nuts, thought I; never eats a dinner, properly speaking; he must be a vegetarian then; but no; he never eats even vegetables, he eats nothing but ginger-nuts. My mind then ran on in reveries concerning the probable effects upon the human constitution of living entirely on ginger-nuts.

He is useful to me. I can get along with him

You see how gentle I am, sir. Shall I go and black his eyes?

But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous