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A CHILD OF NATURE 
him something on which his heart 
was set. Nobody could find fault 
with him, but nobody predicted 
success of any kind for him ; he 
seemed like one of that vast com- 
pany who serve the world in silence 
and, having had not such wages as 
they earned, but as the world chose 
to give them, quietly vanish and 
are seen no more. If the boy had 
ambitions, he never spoke of them ; 
when a day's work was done he 
passed on as if he never expected 
to gain anything from it ; of the 
future he seemed to have no 
thought ; he paid for the right to 
live, and having settled his account 
with the actual, escaped at once 
into the world where his heart was. 
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