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'I'hi.s description was lileralh- liiic, hiii wc had no reason 

 to regret the selection. ^Yo. ])ieke(,l up old " lJoul);i '" at a 

 station on our journey inhuul ; and so true to the cliaraeter 

 was his a])pearan('e and dress, indudinL;- tin' cndiroidcriMl and 

 sleeveless cloak that huii^- down Ids shouKlers, that as the 



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train dirw alonLi the philiorni wi- ■■spoiled" liim m.-iantlv 

 aniong tiie crowd, most of tlie items of wJndi coidd have 

 play(^d tin' stage-villain at a niomcut's noi ice. \\li,iic\cr 

 liouba's crimes may have been — and thcx- would certainly 

 have fdled a hook — siucc his wind fjot short, and for oilio' 

 reasons, he lia<l become a reformed if not a repentant chai-- 

 acter. We tound hiinasolid and rrjiablc person, and "ood 



