The Merry Past 



at last he could not bear his foot any more, and got a 

 razor and shaved it off." 



The Baron passed the whole winter at Brighton, 

 where he had a good establishment, which included a 

 couple of valets, who, it was said, were kept, one to 

 help the other to do nothing. He was a most agree- 

 able and gentlemanlike young man, very popular, for 

 he was always the life of any society in which he 

 might happen to be. 



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