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"I aood friends--you've known ood deal into public

questions----you'reinto that lately It

won't do, you know, breaking o on--trade,

e of staples--that kind of

thing--since Adalobe:--'Observation with extensive view,' must look everywhere, 'from

China to Peru,' as somebody says--Johnson, I think, 'The Rambler,' you

know That is what I have done up to a certain point--not as far as

Peru; but I've not always stayed at home--I saouldn't do I've

been in the Levant, where soain, in the Baltic The Baltic, now"

Plying aot

along, easily to himself, and would have come back from the remotest

seas without trouble; but a diabolical procedure had been set up by the

enemy At one and the same moment there had risen above the shoulders

of the crowd, nearly opposite Mr Brooke, and within ten yards of hilass, and neutral

physiogno; and there had arisen, apparently in the

air, like the note of the cuckoo, a parrot-like, Punch-voiced echo of

his words Everybody looked up at the open s in the houses at

the opposite angles of the converging streets; but they were either