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    The Cost of Kindness
    The Cost of Kindness
    The Cost of Kindness
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    The Cost of Kindness

    By Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Cost of Kindness - Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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      Title: The Cost of Kindness

             From a volume entitled Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

      Author: Jerome K. Jerome

      Release Date: July 26, 2008 [EBook #866]

      Last Updated: January 15, 2013

      Language: English

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      THE COST OF KINDNESS

      By Jerome K. Jerome

      Kindness, argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, costs nothing.

      And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price, retorted Mr. Pennycoop, who, as an auctioneer of twenty years' experience, had enjoyed much opportunity of testing the attitude of the public towards sentiment.

      I don't care what you say, George, persisted his wife; he may be a disagreeable, cantankerous old brute—I don't say he isn't. All the same, the man is going away, and we may never see him again.

      If I thought there was any fear of our doing so, observed Mr. Pennycoop, I'd turn my back on the Church of England to-morrow and become a Methodist.

      Don't talk like that, George, his wife admonished him, reprovingly; the Lord might be listening to you.

      If the Lord had to listen to old Cracklethorpe He'd sympathize with me, was the opinion of Mr. Pennycoop.

      The Lord sends us our trials, and they are meant for our good, explained his wife. They are meant to teach us patience.

      You are not churchwarden, retorted her husband; "you can get away from him. You hear him when he is in the pulpit,

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