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flock, they im"

"Very true, sir!" I nodded "It has always been human to admire

and respect that only which is in any way different to ourselves;

in archaic tis were above ularity of

action were inized this

truth when he shrouded himself in mystery and delivered his

lectures froarded as so of a charlatan in consequence"

"Pray, sir," said the Preacher, absent-ain, "may I ask what you are?"

"A blacksoras and the like?"

"At Oxford, sir"

"How comes it then that I find you in the daith rain,

buffeted by wind, and--, I pointed to a twisted figure that lay

beneath the opposite hedge

"A man!" exclaimed the Preacher, "and asleep, I think"

"No," said I, "not in that contorted attitude"