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This instance recalls to me another event of a 

 very similar kind. Some years ago I knew a lady 

 under her married name only. Her maiden name 

 I did not know until the event occurred which 

 I am about to describe. She was, among other 

 things, interested in Celtic folk-lore and symbolism. 

 I have often conversed with her, and I had 

 noticed when speaking to anyone she had a very 

 characteristic style of expressing herself, not in 

 her choice of w^ords, but again as what I cannot 

 better and yet hardly correctly describe than as an 

 intonation. Two years ago I was in lona, and was 

 introduced to a certain gentleman from Edinburgh. 

 Upon walking one day through the ruined Nunnery and 

 Cathedral, and discoursing with him upon the meaning 

 of the various symbols sculptured out of the stone 

 ornaments, I imagined that I must have heard him 

 before. But no events which I could recall brought 

 m.e in any way into relation with him, and I 

 dismissed the matter. During one of the subsequent 

 sentences which he uttered in describing a certain 

 symbol, so exactly did his intonation resemble that 

 of the lady who had discoursed on a very similar 

 topic several years previously, that I could have 

 no doubt he must be a relation of hers. Accord- 

 ingly I asked him if he were not a brother of Mrs. 



, and he answered that he was. I also know 



the sister of this lady, and her mode of speech 

 has nothing in common with either her brother or 

 her sister. They were reared together as children, 

 and we cannot, I think, attribute this resemblance of 



