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before. All of a sudden I remembered he was 

 King Francis I. of France. I had hitherto 

 thought the face of this king impossible, but 

 when I saw it in play I understood it. His great 

 contemporary Henry VIII. keeps a restaurant 

 in Oxford Street. Falstaff drove one of the 

 St. Gothard diligences for many years, and 

 only retired when the railway was opened. 

 Titian once made me a pair of boots at 

 Vicenza, and not very good ones. At Modena 

 I had my hair cut by a young man whom I 

 perceived to be Raffaelle. The model who 

 sat to him for his celebrated Madonnas is first 

 lady in a confectionery establishment at Mont- 

 real. She has a little motherly pimple on 

 the left side of her nose that is misleading at 

 first, but on examination she is readily recog- 

 nised ; probably Raffaelle's model had the 

 pimple too, but Raffaelle left it out as he 

 would. 



Handel, of course, is Madame Patey. Give 

 Madame Patey Handel's wig and clothes, and 

 there would be no telling her from Handel. 

 It is not only that the features and the shape 



of the head are the same, but there is a certain 



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