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shall transform all my plans in future." 



Many sustained cheers sprang from the sunny row of openly 

 happy ladies, especially from one radiant with delight and bubbling 

 over with rapturous enjoyment at what she saw and heard. 



The Professor bowed his acknowledgments. One of the two 

 grandmammas present beckoned the gaffer aside and whispered some 

 praises of the lady who, he was given to understand, had been 

 engaged for years, and yet had only seen " this wonderful mixture of 

 kindness, manliness, and weakness once during the whole time." 



The gaffer simply repeated the words, manliness and weakness, 

 interrogatively. 



" Yes, and we all know that manliness and weakness in him are 

 so allied, that they who judge him by his exploits here, see but the 

 single side." 



There is the story in its simplicity. The regular succession of 

 facts are faithfully recorded. Consent was given to publish them, 

 under a promise to withhold names and places, and hide from view 

 certain other matters so as to defeat all recognition. 



But how sad the sequel! And yet the general leadcr, if there 

 be one, may like to peruse a modified account of what followed on. 



To put it briefly, all dined together at the Lodge in the 

 evening. Long before the ladies left the table, a lengthy conversation 

 on flies, and the modern system of using them, had taken place. All 

 present were equally attentive, equally silent (with one exception), 

 equally strained in the desire to catch the exact meaning of every 

 argvmirnt aildured. The hero of the day imjircssed us more than ever 

 with the idea that he was no mere knight of the carpet, but a 

 flshcrman who knew all there is known about the whole business. 



