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I -- I feel as though I had been dedicated to some sacred calling -- some lifelong service . And service means brotherhood . '' `` You 'll get over that , '' returned Anthony Dexter , shortly , yet not without a certain secret admiration . `` When you 've had to engage a lawyer to collect your modest wages for your uplifting work , the healed not being sufficiently grateful to pay the healer , and when you 've gone ten miles in the dead of Winter , at midnight , to take a pin out of a squalling infant 's back , why , you may change your mind . '' `` If the healed are n't grateful , '' observed Ralph , thoughtfully , `` it must be in some way my fault , or else they have n't fully understood . And I 'd go ten miles to take a pin out of a baby 's back -- yes , I 'm sure I would . '' Anthony Dexter 's face softened , almost imperceptibly .