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I know, I know. It is like a child
who doesn't want to take his medicine.
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They'll be furious at first, but in the end
they'll see it is for their own good.
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Just don't be hateful. Don't be reproving.
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If anybody can do it,
Grace, you can.
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They'll all realize that this weapon and
this understanding and injustice
has only one true victim and that's you.
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And from there it is only
one small step to forgiveness.
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You've done some hard thinking, Tom Edison.
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I'm sure it is an excellent plan.
I'm sure.
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[Narrator] If forgiveness was close at hand
in the mission house, they were all hiding it well.
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It hadn't been easy for Tom to get them there.
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Appealing to consciences stowed farther
and farther away by their owners every day
:46:18
as if they were as fragile as Henson's
glasses after polishing, had proved quite a task.
:46:24
But if one was going, the others
might as well come along, too,
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so nobody could talk behind anybody's back.
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Tom had set the scene for Grace's speech.
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Now she'd have to sink or swim,
and sincerity be brought to bear.
:46:44
While Grace addressed the silent congregation
in the mission house on Elm Street
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the first of the early autumn snowstorms
embraced the town.
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The snowflakes dusted down over the old
buildings as if this were just any old town.
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And they played in the brances and twigs
from which the apples had hung,