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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. 



