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There's only about eight thousand loaned at present, and nearly five
thousand an bank."
"I'm so sorry!" said Leonore. "But couldn't you give tome of the money,
so that it wouldn't come back?"
"That does more harm than good. It's like giving opium to kill
temporary pain. It stops the pain for the moment, but only to weaken the
system so as to make the person less able to bear pain in the future.
That's the trouble with most of our charity. It weakens quite as much as
it helps."
"I have thought about this for five years as something I should do. I'm
so grieved." And Leonore looked her words.
Peter could not stand that look. "I've been thinking of sending a
thousand dollars of the fund, that I didn't think there was much chance
of using, to a Fresh Air fund and the Day Nursery. If you wish I'll send
two thousand instead and then take your thousand? Then I can use that
for whatever I have a chance."
"That will do nicely. But I thought you didn't think regular charities
did much good?"
"Some don't.


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