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“I hope you’ll be very happy, Miss Jones.”“I know I shall. Oh, it would be wicked of me to doubt it. For it is the Lord who has brought us together.”
“Do you think so?”
“I know it. Don’t you see? Except for the cholera Edward would never have found himself. Except for the cholera we should never have learnt to know one another. I have never seen the hand of God more plainly manifest.”
The Controleur could not but think that it was rather a clumsy device to bring those two together that necessitated the death of six hundred innocent persons, but not being well versed in the ways of omnipotence he made no remark.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Vessel of Wrath.
LOL! Well said, yet knowing the other half, ya might as well take the first pot shot.