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collection. The servant again returned, and invited him to 
attend the party after the exhibition had been closed for the 
night. He again politely refused. 
The lady never returned to the exhibition ; and Edward 
felt that he had grievously offended her by refusing her in- 
vitation. Yet, had she known of his position at the time, 
her heart would have melted with pity at his sufferings. 
But this was of too touching and too delicate a nature to 
be explained to her. By that time, although Edward’s 
doom was not altogether sealed, still he knew, human- 
ly speaking, that his fate was inevitably fixed, and that 
he had no visible means of escape from his lamentable po- 
sition. 
We have said that when Edward opened his exhibition 
in Aberdeen, he expected that there would be a large influx 
of visitors to see the collection of objects in natural histo- 
ty, which he had made with so much labor and difficulty. 
But there was no rush whatever. The attendance was al- 
ways very small. The exhibition-room was for the most 
part empty. Edward at first thought that he had fixed the 
price too high; but he could remedy that defect. The 
better classes had failed him; now he would try the work- 
ing-people. He would call “the millions” to his aid. Ac- 
cordingly he reduced the entrance-price to a penny. 
But “the millions” never came. So far as Edward’s col- 
lection was concerned, their minds seemed as hard and im- 
penetrable as the adamantine houses in which they lived. 
Their hearts, he thought, were made of their native granite. 
Still he would make another effort. He now advertised 
more widely than before, thinking that extended publicity 
might prove successful. He had bills printed by the thou- 
sand; he employed sandwichmen to carry them about, to 
distribute them in the market, in the principal thorough- 
fares, at the gates of the factories and principal working- 
places, and in every place resorted to by working-people. 
To accommodate them, he opened the exhibition at eight 
