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"Come, Ellery, we'll face the one," said Dick

Mr Early extended two hands, ponderous in proportion to the rest of his

body, in fatherly greeting

"Ah, Percival, ain

in St Etienne? I welcome you out of the fetters of mere bookishness

into the freedom of real life, where it is man's business to serve, and

not to absorb"

Dick blushed guiltily as several surrounding ladies turned their

lorgnettes on him, but Mr Early went on, undisturbed and very audible: "I do not introduce you to Swa

to the world of conventionalities, and he lives in that world where real

hus that count; but I put your hand in

his, in token of the contact in which your spirit ood of you, I'ave hi look

"You, too, then, are a seeker?" Ram Juna inquired in a low tone, but