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My father does not easily make friends -- you must have been very civil to him . '' `` According to my lights , I was , '' admitted Cartoner . Martin laughed again . It is a gay heart that can be amused at three in the morning . `` The truth is , '' continued Martin , in his quick and rather heedless way , `` that we Poles are under a cloud in Europe now . We are the wounded man by the side of the road from Jerusalem down to Jericho , and there is a tendency to pass by on the other side . We are a nation with a bad want , and it is nobody 's business to satisfy it .