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dislike nor any other emotion on taking it. He 

 handled Mme. Merian's great folio with the 

 most perfect knowledge of how to use such a book. 

 No antiquary could have fingered or held a 

 valuable book with more care — not as if it were 

 something he was afraid of injuring through igno- 

 rance, but as if he knew its proper value. His 

 eyes glistened when I took down Lord E.'s bronze 

 armadillo from the mantel-piece, though he had 

 not thrown any look of curiosity towards it. When 

 I lifted up the shell of the animal and showed him 

 the two little ink-bottles in it, a shade of astonish- 

 ment passed over his face, but he quickly suppressed 

 it. His face was distinctly handsome : wide across 

 the eyes and cheeks, rather of a gipsy type, all the 

 face and limbs on a large scale. A bright red 

 spread over the cheeks and round the eyes, black 

 rubbed about the lower part of the face above the 

 mouth, and a row of six white spots down the 

 sides of the cheeks. His hair a brilliant black, 

 and clean. Mr. Robins, his attendant, said he was 

 scrupulously clean in his habits. With his plume 

 he was quite seven feet high. When we shook 

 hands he said " Goo-by," and stalked off wrapped 

 in his red mantle. R. then said that a friend of his 

 told him some days ago of this new arrival, and 

 said that he would get the chief to look in upon 

 him. However, R. thought no more of it till the 

 appearance this afternoon.' 



Another visitor shortly afterwards came to the 



