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      "text": "\"They don't worry too much if they get the wrong man,\" Ernest said. \"They reckon whoever they get is probably guilty of something. Or would have been eventually. And if he didn't do anything, he probably wanted to.\"",
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      "text": "\"It can't be an easy thing,\" Lucas said, \"to make a country. It's tough enough to make a café. Or to make one be the way you imagined it. Unless you only let certain people in and keep the rest out.\"",
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