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Why Jesus Wept
Why Jesus Wept (1904), PDF p. 79
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WHY JESUS WEPT
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CHEMIST.
I am afraid, sir, it is marked ‘ once only ’.
THE MAN.
You won’t ? O if you knew what I suffer ! I will pay you
double.
CHEMIST.
I’m afraid not, sir. You may try elsewhere.
THE MAN.
O God O God ! (Goes out. To him enter on the pavement a bedrag-
gled female).
THE WOMAN.
Come home, ducky, won’t you ?
THE MAN.
O God ! O God ! I cannot bear it any longer. It is
the last I have. (He fumbles awhile inside his coat.)
THE WOMAN, catching hold of him.
Come, stand me a glass of wine, there’s a dear.
THE MAN.
Ah ! that is well. Can I use this woman, I wonder ?
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