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than you now do for some little negro boy in
Africa. Now suppose, upon the strength of
what you already know of the heathen children
of Africa, you were to begin to do something
for
them from time to time, how do you know but
you might, in the end, come to be as much
interested in them as you now are in Jemmy
Stubbins?"
" The two cases are different, I think, mother.
However,
if you think it best, and there is any
thing I can do for the African children, I will
make a beginning."
" Not unless you desire to, Henry. I do not
wish you to do anything of the kind to please
me, especially to-day. I wish, as you well know,
to have you act out your own judgment
matter."
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