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of manners, he left behind him a fame beyond that of 

 any conqueror, the memory of a grace higher than that 

 of outward person, and of a gentlemanliness deeper than 

 mere breeding. Never before that startled April morn- 

 ing did such multitudes of men shed tears for the death 

 of one they had never seen, as if with him a friendly 

 presence had been taken away from their lives, leaving 

 them colder and darker. Never was funeral panegyric 

 so eloquent as the silent look of sympathy which stran- 

 gers exchanged when they met on that day. Their 

 common manhood had lost a kinsman. 



