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He was a tall, lathy, irritable man, of eager 

 face, quick, nervous speech, and rajiid Avalk, with 

 something of a military air in his alert, upright 

 figure. The very antithesis of Chaplin, who was 

 of short stature and possessed of a nature that 

 nothing could ruffle. Home must always expend 



BENJAMIN WORTHY HORNE. 



his energies on the minor details of his extensive 

 Inisiness, and himself do work that would have 

 been better dele^-ated to subordinates. In the 

 end this wore him out, and brought him to a 

 comparatively early death. Uj) early, no day 

 was long enough for him, and he economised time 

 bv takiuii: no reticular meal until evenini]^. He 



