The ring looked small in Henry Morrison's palm, the way a guilty...

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The ring looked small in Henry Morrison's palm, the way a guilty conscience looks small in a rich man's hand—insignificant, tarnished, but carrying the weight of everything it had been pawned for.

"Three dollars," Henry said. The woman across the counter—a dark woman with tired eyes and a dress that had been expensive once—did not flinch at the number. She had expected it. She had known, before she walked into his shop on Fifth Avenue, that this ring would buy her two weeks of rent and a bottle of something to help her sleep. "Three dollars is fine," she said. Henry didn't look at the...

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