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or origin. He walked into her house one day 

 out of the great unknown and became at once 

 at home, as if he had been always a friend of 

 the family. He appeared to have artistic and 

 literary tastes, and it was as if he had inquired 

 at the door if that was the residence of the 

 author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and, upon be- 

 ing assured that it was, had decided to dwell 

 there. This is, of course, fanciful, for his ante- 

 cedents were wholly unknown, but in his time 

 he could hardly have been in any household 

 where he would not have heard " Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin" talked about. When he came to Mrs. 

 Stowe, he was as large as he ever was, and 

 apparently as old as he ever became. Yet there 

 was in him no appearance of age ; he was in 

 the happy maturity of all his powers, and you 

 would rather have said that in that maturity he 

 had found the secret of perpetual youth. And 

 it was as difficult to believe that he would ever 



