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VI. Filantropía en el Rincón del Canónigo Menor

sus notas— poco más o menos como si fueran hermosos cautivos bárbaros traídos de algún dominio tropical salvaje. El señor Honeythunder marchaba por el centro del camino, apartando a empujones a los nativos de su paso y exponiendo a voz en grito un plan que tenía para dar una redada a todos los desempleados del Reino Unido, meterlos a todos con cajas destempladas en la cárcel y obligarlos, bajo pena de exterminio inmediato, a convertirse en filántropos.

Mrs. Crisparkle had need of her own share of philanthropy when she beheld this very large and very loud excrescence on the little party.

Always something in the nature of a Boil upon the face of society, Mr. Honeythunder expanded into an inflammatory Wen in Minor Canon Corner.

Though it was not literally true, as was facetiously charged against him by public unbelievers, that he called aloud to his fellow-creatures: “Curse your souls and bodies, come here and be blessed!” still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

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