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in the air, and from time to time people approached and spoke to hih the jaded face and then slowly

died away After a while, as if to subdue the sense of personal

observation, he took a pen and oblong notepaper and began to write on

his knees

Meantiuiled the tediureat creature with a shaggy uinary voice came up, bottle in hand, saluted the downcast

head with a mixture of deference and familiarity, then climbed to the

box-seat beside the driver, and in deepest bass began the rarest

mimicry He was a true son of the people, and under an appearance of

ferocity he hid the heart of a child To look at hihter of the crowd at his daring dashes showed

that he was the privileged pet of everybody Only at intervals the

downcast head was raised fro

said: "Bruno!"

Then the shaggy head on the box-seat slewed round and bobbed doard

with an apologetic gesture, and ten seconds afterwards plunged into

wilder excesses

"Pshaw!"with one hand his forehead under his tipped-up