It made him a little sick to hear how Whitwell had profited by Durgin's necessity, and had taken advantage of him with conscientious and self-Applausive rapacity, while he admired his prosperity, and tried to account for it by doubt of its injustice.
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Their talk had been of the late municipal struggle, and of Kent's part in it; and, like Miss Van Brock, Penelope was Applausive.
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Mrs. Gerrish cackled some Applausive incoherencies.
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