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totally incapable of talking or thinking of any other 

 subject for at least three months to follow. 



And so all idea of returning to America for a third 

 lecturing tour was given up at once and for ever. A 

 fresh syllabus was prepared, with details of additional 

 lectures, and arrangements were quickly made with 

 the view of making the English season of 1885-86 as 

 successful as possible, and of regaining, so far as might 

 be practicable, the ground which had been lost during, 

 the two preceding seasons. 



