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begins at home; and fearing that, if he
did not carry these things to his
brother, or if he warned him of the
danger, he should turn to marble, he
resolved to look rather to the fact
than to the possibility, since the shirt
was closer to him than the jacket.
When he arrived at Shady-Grove, he
found his brother on the shore,
awaiting with great joy the return of
the ship, which he had seen at a
distance. And when he saw that it bore
her whom he carried in his heart, and
confronting one face with the other
perceived that there was not the
difference of a hair, his joy was so
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