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In the long run of our intercourse I always studied 

 his ways, manners, etc., in hopes to find something that 

 would touch some chords of my heart, but I never found 

 any thing but asperities, rough ^acting, and yet you 

 could not strictly apply him those monkish rhymes 



' Mel in ore, verba lactis, 



' Fel in corde, fraus in factis." 



' Honey in his mouth, words of milk, 

 Gall in his heart, and fraud in his acts." 



' For he had no honey in his mouth, nor milk in his words, 



' But he had surely gall in his heart and fraud in his acts or 



actions.'" L. M. 



In spite of all my efforts I could not overcome cer- 

 tain feelings, not exactly of antipathy but not of 

 sympathy as I understood it. 



Nevertheless we looked all over the garden, green- 

 houses, etc. He knew good many plants and spoke 

 knowingly about them, finally we parted and he asked 

 me if he could come agaiu. I told him he might come 

 whenever he pleased. 



Sometime after, I can't tell precisely how long, he 

 came again with another person, he found me at the 

 potting bench handling some Cacteacse just imported, 

 and almost before he had spoken a word to me he 

 took one of the labels off one plant read it and told 

 me : that ! is not the name of a plant ! it was a com- 

 pound name of two greek roots, I told him the mean- 



