Chapter 21
The shooting of Boggs in the street.
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From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Sherburn coldly shoots the drunkard Boggs, then delivers a withering speech on the cowardice of mobs - Twain's darkest meditation on human nature.
Chapter 22
Sherburn's contemptuous speech facing down the lynch mob: "The average man's a coward... Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than any other people."
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