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with him had given him, perhaps 

 by antiphrasis, the startling name 

 of Pelleas* Why rechristen him? 

 For how can a poor dog, loving, 

 devoted, faithful, disgrace the 

 name of a man or an imaginary 

 hero? 



Pelleas had a great bulging, 

 powerful forehead, like that of 

 Socrates or Verlaine; and, under 

 a little black nose, blunt as a churl- 

 ish assent, a pair of large hanging 

 chops, which 

 massive, 

 three-cor- 



and symmetrical chop 

 made his head a sort of 

 obstinate, pensive and \ 





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