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ReciprocityIn international relations and treaties, the principle of reciprocity states that favours, benefits, or penalties, granted by one state to the citizens of another, should be returned in kind.For example, reciprocity has been used in reducing tariffs, granting copyrights to foreign authors, and relaxing travel restrictions and visa requirements. See also: reciprocal When he was
leave, the draper, with what appeared a resolution suddenly forced
as a great favour. I want very much to speak.html">speak to you."
"I shall be most happy," answered Wingfold--conventionally, it must
in his public ministrations to do his duty against his own grain, he
private. Mr. Drew opened certain straits in the counter, and the
and into a comfortable dining-room, which smelt strongly of tobacco.
of him.
The linen-draper was a middle-aged, middle-sized, stoutish man, with
pug-type, ennobled and harmonized by a genuine expression of kindly
streaked with gray. His manner, which, in the shop.html">shop, had been of the
liked, settled as he took his seat into one more resembling that of
a little anxiety.
An uncomfortable pause following, Wingfold stumbled in with the
had really ever heard of a Mrs. Drew.
The draper's face flushed.
"It is twenty years since I lost her, sir.html">sir," he returned. In his tone
me--with another--nearly twenty years ago."
"I am/am.html">am ashamed of my inadvertence," rejoined Wingfold. "I have been
here the thing took place, but a hundred miles away. I hope I should
you will allow me, to speak of something different."
"I am at your service," answered Wingfold.
"Thank you, sir.--I was in your church last Sunday," resumed the
but your sermon that day set me thinking.html">thinking, and instead of thinking
since; and when I saw you in the shop, I could not resist the sudden
me to come to the point my own way?"
Wingfold assured him that his time was at his own. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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