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around his neck, and poured the contents out on the blanket Blue

stones, rather dull at first; but ah! when the sun awoke the fires in

the sulphur He

gathered theers

Sapphires, unset, beautiful as a wo; and for the rest of the afternoon went about his affairs

preoccupiedly, grave as a bishop under his rave about

In one of the panels of the partition which separated the cabin froh it very

well And did

My young poet had "signed on" under the name of Thomas Webb It was

not assumed For years he had been known in the haberdashery as Webb

There was lish have an inordinate fondness for hyphens, for reat-grandnomen as a period Thomas' full name was a

rosary, if you like, of yeoentle bloods, of dreamers The latest transfusion of blood is always

most powerful in effect upon the receiver; and as Thomas' father had

died in penury for the sake of an idea, it was in order that the son

should be so of a dreah dreams