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had a sincere respect and sympathy — the "hard 

 funker." Than he no man has a more cruel lot. 

 He is the victim of a reputation. On some occasion 

 his horse ran away with him, or some combination 

 of circumstances occurred, resulting in his "going" 

 brilliantly in a run, or being carried safely over some 

 impossible place which, though he subsequently, like 

 Mr. Winkle in his duel, had presence of mind enough 

 to speak of and treat as nothing out of the way, 

 and to have jumped which was to him an ordinary 

 occurrence, he could not in any unguarded moment 

 contemplate, allude to, or even think of without 

 shuddering. By nature nervous and timid — weak- 

 nesses reacted upon as a sort of antidote by a love 

 of notoriety and a secret craving for admiration and 

 applause — this heavy calamity had occurred to him, 

 from which he could never shake himself free. 



The burden ot an honour 

 Unto .which he was not born, 



clung to him wheresoever he went. Greatness was 



