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Or has he earned forgiveness by his conduct in youth? Why,
he deserves imprisonment for that conduct just as much as for his embezzlements.
Do you mean because he frequented the market-place before he was qualified, and
with his own hands haled men of respectable life from the market-place to the
jail? But there is Melanopus, you say, and what a dreadful thing it would be if
Melanopus were committed to prison today!
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