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A CHILD OF NATURE 
him by force, apparently, of his own 
inward attraction. He loved study, 
art, travel ; and he went free-footed 
and sure-footed through a world 
which set its choice food and wine 
before him wherever he chose to 
tarry. He was thirty years old 
when he opened the door of John 
Foster's bare little study, and he 
had awakened more hopes than 
gather about most men in the full 
course of a lifetime. He knew so 
much, had seen so many things, 
lived in so many cities, made so 
many friends, spoke so many lan- 
guages, and was gifted with such su- 
perb vitality and such ease and grace 
that he seemed capable of all things, 
and had become a glorious promise. 
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