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Card 6
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Molly... was the only creature Tom feared... because she had once been a chuckling baby whom he had liked to push about in a battered pram.
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Card 7
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... subdued that treacherous weakness. Not to give in had been his pride, his faith, his sustenance, and so far it had not failed him.
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Card 8
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To Todd it indicated a depth of insolence, to Forbes indomitably.
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Card 9
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Tom knew he would have to watch carefully this girl... she would try to worry all his secrets out of him.
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Card 10
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Without doubt, at the very back of his mind from the very beginning had been the hope that his befriending of this slum delinquent child might reach the ears of authority.
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Card 11
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The danger lay in falling into resentment against Tom Curdie, in seeing the boy's admirable reticence as some kind of sinister senile composure, such as was shown by the changeling of Highland legend, that creature introduced by the malevolent...
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Card 12
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Mary thought she detected in the smile amusement at her husband's extravagance; she pardoned it for she also thought she saw affection, rather touching on so guarded and precocious a face.
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Card 13
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here he was arrived in his kingdom, where regret, humiliation, mercenariness, and failure, did not exist.
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Card 14
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... looking so much like father and son that as Mary saw them she couldn't help feeling jealous on behalf of her own son... Curdie would have to be watched carefully, otherwise he would steal what belonged to Alistair and Gillian.
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Card 15
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That's what your here for, after all, to find your childhood.