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ough a process moving from shock, disgust, anger, rage, and so on, until they reach a place of numb acceptance of the trade-off between the town's happiness and the child's pain: "Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality and to accept it" (831). However, some cannot bear this "reality" and they leave the town, apparently moved by their conscience or disgust or some other inner compulsion. They do not rescue or attempt to rescue the child, for they are as

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