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A cold sweat broke out upon his forehead as the foul memories condensed within his brain.
If a man had stolen a pound in his youth and had used that pound to amass a huge fortune how much was he obliged to give back, the pound he had stolen only or the pound together with the compound interest accruing upon it or all his huge fortune?
He repeated to himself the lines of Shelley's fragment.
That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought.