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[Narrator] Of course it was all a load of nonsense.
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If anybody was capable of keeping track
of ideals and reality, he was.
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After all, it was his job.
Moral issues were his home ground.
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To think that he might doubt his own purity
was really to think very little of him.
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Tom was angry.
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And in the midst of it all,
he discovered why.
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It was not because of he'd been wrongly accused,
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but because the charges were true!
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His anger consisted of a most unpleasant
feeling of being found out!
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It was all quite a blow to the young philosopher!
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And realistically enough, he thought
that if the doubt was already present, it could grow.
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Perhaps so great that one day it would prove
detrimental to his entire moral mission.
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Tom stopped.
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He almost began to shake when the threat
to his career as a writer dawned upon him.
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It didn't take him long to agree with himself
that the risk was too great to run.
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The danger Grace was to the town
she was also to him!
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Tom did not like it.
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And he was man enough
to take action to prevent it.
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Fortunately Tom was as conscientious
as regards his future profession as he was practical.
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He allowed sincerity and ideals
plenty of room in his life,
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without getting "sentimental" about it,
as he would put it.
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Throwing away a document that might be
of significance to Tom and with him future generation
of readers as the basis of a novel or indeed a trilogy,