Kindness Quote by Winston Graham

““On all counts I’ve let these people down. I came among them a stranger and a physician. I have met with nothing worse than suspicion and much that’s been better than kindness. Eggs that could be ill spared pressed on me in return for some fancied favor. Little gestures of goodwill even from people who are Choake’s people. Confidence and trust. In return I have helped to break up the life of one of their number. If I went now I should go for good, a cheat and a failure.””

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