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away at his doubt-building that it was im- 

 possible to avoid humoring him. If he 

 hit you on the ear, he immediately jabbed 

 his own nose, so that the score was even 

 and resentment out of the question. You 

 actually sympathized with your assailant's 

 mood, and regretted that he had punished 

 himself so rashly, albeit justly. 



He saw that quackery was at its highest 

 in his day, and he gave the doctors of medi- 

 cine hard blows under cover of a delight- 

 ful humor. Hear him speak of " cette 

 grimace rebarbatifve " with which they 

 .went about! He had a sense of the grim 

 trick of it all. He trusted to nature, and 

 died of a quinsy at fifty-nine. But there 

 was a larger quackery into which he poured 

 a curious, flickering, and wandering side- 

 light of examination. He would tell the 

 ** effect of things," he said. Where will 

 this lead us to? What do we expect to 

 discover on this road? These were his 

 inquiries ; but he had so harmless an air 

 that no person seeing him would suspect 

 him of delving deep by the wayside. 

 Neither Calvin nor the Pope could have 

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