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ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD 363<br />

paper. Here it is." And Twysden pulls out his great gold eyeglasses,<br />

holds the paper as far as his little arm will reach, and ________<br />

and merciful Powers ! __________ but I will not venture to depict the agony<br />

on that noble face. Like Timanthes the painter, I hide this<br />

Agamemnon with a veil. I cast the Globe newspaper over him.<br />

Illabatur orbis : and let imagination depict our Twysden under<br />

the ruins.<br />

What Twysden read in the Globe was a mere curt paragraph ;<br />

but in next morning's Times there was one of those obituary notices<br />

to which noblemen of eminence must submit from the mysterious<br />

necrographer engaged by that paper.

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