Don Horacio 



he was an expected guest for dinner 

 once or twice a week, he enjoyed 

 the best of everything that devoted 

 friends could offer, and lived with- 

 out anxiety concerning his personal 

 welfare, giving himself wholly to his 

 favorite pursuits. 



He was an insatiable reader of 

 many sorts of books, old and new, 

 with a wide range of current litera- 

 ture, and, while most at home in the 

 atmosphere of romance, he seemed 

 to know something of everything 

 going on in the universe generally, 

 visible and invisible, anywhere within 

 the far-reaching domain of psychi- 

 cal research or of Swedenborgian 

 philosophy, which was his favorite re- 

 ligion. The revelations of the tele- 

 scope in astronomical research, the 

 transactions of the Microscopical So- 

 ciety, geographical — especially polar 

 — exploration, aerial navigation, the 

 practical applications of electricity to 

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