Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. "Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world. (Alex Haley)

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. "Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world.

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