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

 any conqueror, the memory of a grace higher tlian tliat 

 of outward person, and of a gentlemanhness deeper than 

 mci-e 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 whicL stran- 

 gers exchanged when they met on that day, Theii 

 common manhood had lost a kinsman. 



