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Abf olnto acquiescence in the decision of the majority, (he vital principle of Republic, from which there I no appial but to force, the viul principle and immediate parent of despotism. Jtrraaao. Ily Itlasscr & Eludy. (Suubury, rVorlliiimbcrland Co. Ia. Saturday, .Ipi il p4 IS 13. Vol. 3 Ao. as Whole Xo, 132. TKIIMS OF TIIC " AMCIICIAX.'' H. 11. MASSEK, 7 ri BLi(.nrn as JOSEPH EISEI.Y. $ Pnoeniiroa. II. It. .TVl.v.SKl. F.tlilor. From the Rnston Post. The lady aid 'twaa a qtienr court, When there I wrnt to bourd ; But Susan thrum the p;no-forte, And by Sim the bass ia rnnred. Oh, night and dav d.iet Susan play The fashion ible piece' ; And ofi, together, rung mother and father, Their daughter, son and ruecc. When twinkle, twii klea the evening Mar. Inviting to mediation. Then tinkle, linklea a cursed ru tar From a neinhbnrinc windnw-st ilion ; While little Tom tliumpa a kc:tle drum For an Infantile paiude. With a racker tack tack, and a recket-tack-tak, And shoti's from the whole brigade. The mnke cap on the chimney-lop Mitii k lo the fitful winds, Aa thry twirl the aicn of li e tailor' ahop, And el 'm the baker's blind. Fiom nichtfdl to the niornina'a dawn, Are heard the yell appalling .Of cut from every neighboring wall, Which men term catlt rw aiding. Anil T. g keep a score of hounds. Whn-e foul, dibonet bark Otiidoea all other horrid sounds Which watt upon the d irk ; Even oa a deluge in it might 'J'akcx 'dl the I ille bike up, Or as the prophet's serpent rod Ate all i lie other snake up. Ye deaf! rejoice thnt ye are free (Oh, think not I am jeering !) From human kind' wont tyrjiiny The tyranny of hearing ! Go.id.hxe, ni u.kind ! I'll in the Wet Live neiglil'orle, I ke Boon ; Or seek a world w.thi ut Yn air, And colmiir-c the n oun, S. Q. O.. From Sargent's AVie Monthly Magazine. LADY IllI.WKn. From the Portfolio of one w ho knew her. BY HELEN UEItkLKT. (Concluded.) It was nbout a year after the publication of 'Chcveley,' that I became acquainted with La dy Bulwer. She was residing in Paris as the only city in which she could live respectably on Iter scanty income. She had many friends there, and was universally courted. But her thoughts were occupied by her children ; and the wan duily forming some new project to regain them. Bulwer was then liviner openly in London with the very poverties who had create' his domestic ('istuibaiiccs ; and who was then tlie mother of several of his children. Worse than this, Ijoly Bulwer's unfortunate little ones were under the care of this infa mous woman ; and Lt ought up with her ille gitimate progeny ! It was dreadful enough fi.r their mother to feel that they were no long er under hrr guidance; but to know that tlu'y were subjected to the most contaminating in fluenco itiha'.ing an ntinosphcre of vice their pure fpirits hccmuiii; accustomed to in iquity she would pomi'times say that to hear they were dead would be comparative happi ness ? Site experienced great pleasure in the con viction, that her children cherished her memo ry in spite of their long separation. On enter ing her apartment one day I observed that her ryes wvre swo'len with tears, and her man ner unusually agitated. I ventured to inquire whether the had received news from London ! Pointing to a passage in nn open Irtter, ehe raid with deep emotion, 'Read thut. My pour boy! he has net forgotten his mother !' The letter was from a friend in London. The passage contained Iho following anecdote. Bulwer whs sitting in his drawing-room, which was filled with company, when Ijidy Bui wer's litile son, then about eight or nine years of age, entered the apartment and stood betide his fithcr'iJ knee. Bulwer had not seen the child for some time. Alter looking at him for moment, w ithout Fteaking, lie turned to the gentleman beside him, and remarked, with a frown: 'lie's devil it-h like his mother !' The boy heard him, looked up, with indignation plowing on his fine countenance, and tuid : t' devlinh filad of it, fir ' Lady Bjlwer'a peculiar expressions in con versation, the force and vigor of her language, left deeper impression on my mind than those of almost any other person, with whom I ever conversed. When we were talking over the impossibility of her obtaining a divorce, and thus recovering her children, without the pos sesion of a larger furn of mone'y than she had any prospect of commanding, 6he would say: 'England boasts of her hw ; and she has good ones. Bat men made them to protect them selves to guard beasts and birds from injury they framed no law to shield woman.' At onother time, when I was vainly trying to persuade hei that she would in the end re cuive justice even from a harsh-judging public, the replied : 'I do not doubt it There is species of justice that comes to all, when death ha placeJ them beyond the reach of injury ; bnl the tun that thines on our graves cannot benefit our tot.' She was rather apt to be severe, though generally there was much of playfulness even in her seventy, upon the whole male sex. Sho did not disguise her belief, that interest was the only barrier that could prevent them from gratifying their worst passions. I once said to her laughingly, when she was drawing a half ludicrous, halfstern picture of the nialo charac ter: 'Come, come ; you should not speak so without making tome exceptions; remember have a husband.' She answered in a tone, the mingled bitterness and sadness of which I shall never forget : ' have a husband too ; or perhaps 1 should not speak so.' She was always npirited, and in ceneral live ly, and exceedingly brilliant in conversation. She possessed what might have been called a genius for repartee. Yet, in spite of her wit, she was seldom, 1 think I may Fay never, satiri cal. Her daily chit-chat would have made a volumn of bon mots. The following anec dotes will show the general turn end style of these jeux iTetprit. She said to me a day or two before we left Paris, 'Why do you not re turn lo America in a Ftoamship ? I wonder nt your going in a p.icket !' '1 would willing ly do so,' I replied, nn! so would the rest of our party, but my aunt, Miss , who ac companies us, resolutely tdijects ; she says she is afraid of being blown vp 'Well, that's hut natural, when you reflect that she is a spin ster,' returned Lady Bulwer, smiling ; 'if she had been married she would have grown quite accustomed to that long ago.' At another time a gentleman of the compa ny was disparaging Byron, and insisting that all his poems were inspired by pin. Iidy Bul wer stopped him with : 'No shnder, Mr. II , unless you can give us some news along with it. We all admitted long ago, when you pre tended to deny it, that Byron's poems were full of tpiril.' I should fill pages if 1 called upon my niemo- rv for more of these anecdotes. It was im possible to see Idy Bulwer without hearing retnaiks like these every few moments. This style of repartee she introduces very frequent ly into her works; too frequently, perhaps, and certainly too indiscriminately; for she is apt to put witticisms into the mouths of all her characters alike. When the thought originates in her own mind she is immediately too charm ed w ith it to reflect, that it may be inappropri ate to the character she is then portraying. Another error is unfortunately apparent in every book she has yet published. She writes of man kind and of life, entirely from her own experi ence. She ever pictures men as she has found them, and the world as it has seemed to her Thus a shadow is thrown over all her brightest imaginings. And a sameness is conspicuous even in the midst of originality. There appcaml to be a union of opposites in the character of Ijtdy Bulwer. Though strik ingly spirited in her manner, always self-pos sessed, quick to decide anil prompt to act, though the was gifted with peculiar tact in re pelling the advances of a fop, who believed her accessible, because the was unprotected ; and though her very glance conminnJed respect from the most frivolous, yet gentleness grace, and suavity were her especial attributes. I had many opportunities during my reei lence in Paris of becoming acquainted w ith the firmness and energy of Lady Bulwer' charac ter. I also witnessed some oi Hie persecutions to which she was even then subjected by her misguided husband. One instance in particu lar, by which ull Paris was kept in a state of excitement for several days, is worthy of ic- rnrd. If a man is an ordinary villian, at least half the world will give him the credit of be ing a mounter. But if the atrocities ho com mits arc of a more heinous nature than the imagination can readily picture, then they surpass belief, and he is gen"ral!y considered a tolerably good sort of a person, who has been unjustly traduced. This is Bulwer' case; and I should not expect the history I am ubout to relate to gain credence, were it not authenti cated by the publicity, winch it eihtained ut the time, and by the facts, which were brought to light before a court of justice. Lady Bulwer had in her possession several letters from her husband, filled with fearful menaces and the most insulting accusations. Bulwer, when informed by I-HUy Bulwer's lawyer of the- existence of those papers, said, in reply, 'I do assure you, the letters are mere forgeries. I never wrote any thing of the kind in my.life. I But, my dear fir," replied the lawyer, 'ad milting that the handwriting, and your own seal might have been imitated, the pott-marli could not have been forged. And then, a woman would hardly write herself the accusation the letters contain. Bulwer, in the haste and blindness of his ex citable passions, not seeing the snare in which he was caught, retorted : 'Iet me tell you, air, that every word of these aceutations is true.' In one breath he denied all knowledge of the letters, in the next he showed himself so per fectly acquainted with their contents, that he was ready to maintain their truth and justice ! These papers ho became exceedingly anxious to regain, as they might at some time be used to his disadvantage. In the daily hahit of framing ficititions plots to delifjht the public, he now essayed to form one which should he realized inactual life for his own private grati fication. lady Bulwer was then residing in Paris, and her husband in Imdon. Wer femme de ehambre, who was much attached to her, was one evening waylaid in the street by a cou ple of men. They commenced conversation by saying that they knew her to be in I.ady Bul wer's employment, and that they had some thing to communicate, which would be of ser vice to her mistress. The girl on hearing this, naturally enongh, gave them her attri tion. But they seemed inclined to chat awhile lcfore they afforded her the promised informa tion. 'Does lady Bulwer treat you well !' asked one. 'Would you not like to have a pluec where you could get higher wasres V 'She treats me very well,' replied the girl ; 'I am satisfied where 1 am.' 'But doesn't she ever get into a passion with you V inquired the other man.' 'No, sir, she decs not.' 'Well, have you never observed any thing improper in her conduct, which you could let us know 1 Come, now, be a pond girl, and te-li us all about her, and you shall not repent eit it.' '1 have nothing to tell,' answered the girlt who now began to be frightened. 'Pray let me go home quietly.' 'You shall go in a moment; but first think a little whether you cannot remember sonic thing she has done which was not exuetly the thing something a little out of the way. '1 havo never seen any thing ut all out of the way.' 'But don't you think," continued the man, 'that ifwe were to give you two hundred francs you might remember something )' 'I do not know any thing to remember.' 'Just think a little take time. Let me see suppose I were to make you a present now of five hundred francs just as a present for your faithfulness don't you suppose it would bring to mind romc little indiscretion ! Five hun dred francs ! that's a good deal of money.' '1 could not tell you any thing if you were to give me five thousand said the girl, 'so pray let me go ;' and she attempted to hurry away Not till you promise that you will say no thing to your mistress of having met us! If you refuse you never spoke words in your life that you will have such cause to repent.' 1 shall not Eay any thing I promise you I will not only let me go !' And the girl broke away from them, and hastened home. She was at first deterred, by the threats of the m'ti from disclosing to Lady Bulwer her conversation with them. But her love for her mistress, and her dread that some secret plot was forming to injure her, at length overcame every other apprehension. She went to I.ady Bulwer and related what had occurred. Lidy Bulwer at once felt the conviction that these ca tiffs were but instruments in the hands of her husband. She tuld the girl, that should they meet her again, she must evineeno alarm but rather draw them into conversation, with a view of discovering their object in making micI inquiries. If they made her any proposition she must neither refuse nor accept it : but tell them she would converse with tliem ajain on the subject, and immediately return home and communicate what had transpired. In ! ss than a week the girl was ajain ae eosted by the samo men, who were prowling about near the door (if l,ady Bu'wer's residence, She followed the instructions of her mistress and as soon as thev were on of siuht ran honi and instantly made Idv Bulwer acquainted with what had taken place. The men, alter trying to get her to Fay that she hud seen Lady Bulwer riviunit some in discretion, or to brin'f some charge against her, which she could be bribed ti maintain in court ofiustice, and finding that she did not choose to accuse her mistress falsely, attempt ed another game. They asked the pirl if shi could not manage, should they give her a large sum of money for her trouble, to conceal them at night iu Lady Bulwer's chamber 1 Their object, they said, was to possess themselves of some valuable papers in her escritorre, and tftld the girl thut she need not be fearful of be ing discovered, as they would take care thut Lady Bulwer should never mention the sub ject. The girl replied that it would take some time for her to make up her mind, but that she would meet them the next evening, and let them know what she had concluded lodo. De lighted with th'-ir success, they left her, promising munificent reward for her services. - Lady Bulwer-inetroeted the faithful eret- ture to keep her appointment with the men ; and to tell them that (hty should be admitted to her mistress's chamlt'r'belbrc she retired that night. TUefcmmc de chatnbre met the vil. luns once more, and communicated with them as sho had been instructed. The men de sired that they might he safely concealed be fore lndy Bulwer could enter the apartment A late hr:tir that night was agreed itpoi, and the parties separated with mutual satisfaction. At the hour proposed the men presented themselves. They were oon comfortably con cealed between the curtain bed and the wall. The fetnmc de ehambre, when every thing was arranged to their satisfaction, left the a partmcnt. A moment afterward Lady Bulwer herself entered the room attended by her law yer. She immediately walked up to the bed, and, drawing away the curtains, disclosed the terrified ruffians tremblingly crouching in the furthest corner. They were arrested and sent to prison, l.aily Bul .vcr instantly commenced a suit against them. I saw her the day after the above occurrence heard all the particulars from her own lips and beheld the chamber in which the un expected disclosure took place. On the day of iicr trial, the setifation through out Paris was so great that the court was crowded to overflowing w ith the English and French nobility. Two hours bofore the pro ceedings commenced we found it impossible to obtain seuts. I therefore waited, with tremu lous anxiety, to hear the result The trial had luirdlv commenced, when Sir Edward Lytton Bui wer himself appeared in court. Ilia en trance of course increased the excitement. Phe counsellor for the prisoners, who was no other than the distinguished M. Thiers himself, then rose and requested to be heard. He in formed the court, that by the laws both of Eng land and France, a married woman, undivorred had no rght of her own to institute legal pro ceedings without the consent of her husband. He then bogged that these proceeding mi'jht be Flopped, as Sir Hdu-atd Lytton Bulwer now presented himsilf to withhold his permis sion ! There was no reseurse. Such was indeed the law. The proceeding were stopped and the court broke up. Iidy Bulwer sorrowful ly returned to her home, feeling more than e ver, that there was "no Itup to shield woman " I ler domicile had been violated at night her person endangered her paperslaid open and she could not come forward in a court ol jus tice to say, " demand redrtss .' I t all upon the countiy, whose law should prnti rt m'.ir justice ! Her husband, omnipotent in his vi lany, fiad robbed her, by a technicality of the law, of that common justice, which the mean est peasant could ask mid obtain. Splendid as may bo the genius, and number less the acquirements of this equally notorious and cilebraled man, should his Works go down to prosterity, w ill not theeluin of his domestic cruelty go down with them, and cast a perpet ual shadow owr their glory ! I must not close this imperfect sketch of the talents and personal chwrnis of one, who pus scssid too many of both for justice to be done them in so short a space, without mentioning perhaps her principal fascination, tier voice hut how shall I describe what mustouWr before it can be conceived 1 It was rich, thril ling, musicu!, and yet low ; wanting in force, its power existed in its expression. Its very tone conveyed the sentiment, when the words were indistinguishable. It was one of those voices which haunt us in dreams, which long, after they are silent, echo in our ears, and which touch our hearts whenever thry arc heard. A ni LI.-I'IlillT IX MKIIIDA. "The next would have been worthy of the best bull-fights in Old Spain, when the cava lier, at the glance of his lady's eye, leaped into the ring to play the matador with his sword. He was u Urge black bull, without uny partic ular m:irks of ferocity ubout linn; but a man u ho s tio o'ir bo.v., and for w hose judgment I had conceived a groat respect, lighted a new straw cigar nnd pronounced him ' May bravo.' There was no be!lowin', blustering or bravado about btiii, but he showd a calmness and s If possession which indicated a consciousness of strength. The picadores attacked him on horseback, and, like the Noir Faineant or Slug gish Knight, in thelis'sat Ashhy, for a time he contended himself merely repelling the at tacks of his as-iihiuts ; hut suddenly, aa if a little vexed, he laid hi head low, looking up at the speurs pointed In his neck, and shutimg his (yes, rushed upon a picador on one side, struck his horse in the belly s ith his horns, lifted him off his feet, and brought horse and rider head long to the ground. The horse fell upon the rider, rolled completely over him, with his heels in the air. and r.sn with one of the rider's feet entangled in 'the stirrup For Hn intar.t he stood like a breathing statue, with nostrils wide and cars thrown back, wild with friglit ; nd then, catching sight of the bull, he eprawjf clear off the ground, and dashed ofTat full speed around the ring, dragging after liim the luck less picador. Around he went, senseless and helpless, his whole tndy grimed with dirt, and w ith no more life in it, apparently, than in a mrrc log of wood. At every bound it seemed as if the horse must strike his hind hoofs into his forehead. A cold shudder ran through the spectators. The man was a favorite, he had friends and relatives present, and every body knew his name. A deep murmur of 'El Probe? burst from every bosom. I felt actually lifted from my seat, the President of the Life and Trust would not have given a police upon him for any premium. The picadores looked on aghast ; the bull was roaming loose in the ring, perhaps the only indifferent spectator. My own feelings were roused against his companions, who, after what seemed an age of the rack, keeping a special good lookout upon the bull, at length started in pursuit with laros, caught the horse around the neck and brought him up headlong. The picadores extricated their la lien companion, and carried him out. l lis face was so begrimed with dirt that not a fea ture was visible ; but as ho was borne across the ring, he opened his eyes, and they seemed starting from his head with terror. 'He was hardly out of the ring when ahorse cry ran through the spectators, pie! a pie f on foot! on foot !' The picadores dismounted and attacked the bull fiercely on foot, flourish ing their ponehas. Almost at the first thrust he rushed upon one of his adversaries, tumbled him down, passed over his body, and walked on without even turning round to look at him. He too was picked up and carried off. The attack was renewed, and the bull be' came roused. In a few moments he brought a- nother picader to the ground, and, carried on by his own impetus, passed over the body, but, with a violent effort, recovered himself and turned short round upon his prostrate prey, gla red over him for a moment with a low bellow, almost a howl, and raiting his forefeet a little from the ground, so as to give full force to the blow, thrust both horns into the stomach of the fallen picador. Happily the points were saw ed off, and, furious at not being able to gore and toss him, he got one horn under the picador's sash, lifted him and dashed him buck violently upon the ground. Accustomed as the specta tors were to the scenes ol this kind, there was a universal burst of horror. Not a man moved to save him. It would perhaps be unjust to brand them as cowards, for brutal and degra ding as their tie was, they doubtless had a fee ling of companionship ; but, at all events, not a man attemp'cil to save hiin, and the bull, af ter glaring over him, swelling and pawing him for a moment, to all a moment of intense excite ment. turned away and left him. 'This man too, was carried off. The sym pathies of the spectators had for a w hile kept them hushed ; but as soon as the man was out of sight, all their bent-up feelings broke out in indignation against the bull, and there was universal cry, in which the soft tones of women mingled with the hoarse voices of the men 'Maltalo!' Maltalo .' 'Kill him! kill him!' The picadores stood aghast. Thiceoftheir com panions had been struck down and carried ofl the field ; the bull, pierced in several placed with blood streaming from him, but fresh as w hen he began, and fiercer, was roaming round the ring, and they held back, evidently afraid tooltack him. The spectators showered upon them the opprobrious name of'Cohardes ' Co- bardes !' 'Cowards! Cowards !' The dragoon enforced oliedience to their voice, and fortifying themsloves w ith a strong draught of aqua ardi ente, they once more faced the bull, poised their spears before him, hut with faint hearts and trembling hands, and finally, without a single thrust, amid the contemptuous shouts of the crowd, fell back and let the bull master of the field. Others were let in, and it was almo-t dark when the last fight ended. With the last bull the ring was opened to the boys, who, amid roars of laughter, pulled, hauled, and hustled him till ho could hirdly stand, and amid the so lemn tones of the Vesper Bell, the bull-fight in honor of San Cristoval ended." WirriANA. The editor ofthe Iifourehe Pa triot wants a wife. He says he wants "a hand some, young, witty, accomplished, and rich la dy, without father, mother, or other encumbran ces, and with no poor relations, or country cou sins. The Washington Globe publishes the mar ri ige of a Or. Burke, in his 3d year, to Mrs. .Mary Lynch, in her 70th year all of Wash ington. ' If love I e a flune, nd wedlock fi' Then the old t ick be t bicaue ii i d ier." Men, before they marry, should ascertain w hether they mist stand in need of a w ife, an heiress or a nurse. Dost. But SoMSTiiiNu Heavy.- We hate a newspaper which contains such heavy articles that s per son get tired bold Log it two minute. Comet. Boswf.i i., in his life of Johnson, says it was at one time a favorite amusement among the wits of tho Literary Club to search out in SiiAKSPKtn some characteristic touch that hit off the character of each one of them, and ofe- very one known to them. The search, it is said, was seldom made in vain ; for the range of SiiAksr-EAn's genius seems to have included almost every variety of human character. Na luralista of the present century have further declared that in his allusions to natural objects, such as minerals, trees, flowers, precious stones, and the like, Shakspcar has almost invariably given to each some characteristic expression marking its individuality with an accuracy and truthfulness to nature altogether wonderful. Nor could this felicity of discrimination have proceeded from a scientific knowledge of the things described. It was the instinct of geniuj which thus caught the inward essence, as it were, of every object that quick and delicate sympathy whereby is intimated the unity of spirit pervading all creation and harmonizing; the mind of man with the external nature a round him. With that all-grasping observation which. took in the vast and the minute, the common and the strange, using all as elements where with tho creative imaginations iashioned forth its forms of beauty, grace and grandeur, it could scarcely happen that such portentioua things as Comets could escape the eye of a Po et Since the appearance of the strange visi tor whose evening light brightening the West ern horizon has for aoine time past attracted tho attention of gazers, a condemndoble curiosity has prompted many to search out in the Ency clopedias and books of science every thing that could be found relative to the nature of comets, meteors, zodiacal lights, and such phenomena. Among other authors we find that SiiAKsrcAa has been consulted ; and whether his allusions to comets be worth more or less in a scienti fic way than the disquisitions of ihe philoso phers, he has undoubtedly expressed them in a more striking manner ; and perhaps we may add that he has employed comets in the way in which men have hitherto made them useful that is in the service of poetry. Here follow some passages. The play of King Henry VI. opens with the following ex clamation from Bedford : "Hung be the heavens with black! yield day to night ! Oo'neK importing chnngnof timea and state, Hrnndi-h your cliry-t il tie.jaea in the tky . And with them srourgethe had, revo'ting atari. Tint have c. naeuted unto Henry's death !" When Gi.endower boasts to Hotspur, in Henry IV. of his own importance and extraor dinary character, he says : 'at my nativity The front of Heaven was full of fiary shapes Of burning cressets." In the same play the King thus speaks to Worcester, w ho had been in rebellion : "Move in that obedivnt orb again, Where you did Rive a fair and natural light; And be no mor an exhaled meteor, A prodigy of fear and a portent Of prouchad raUrhief t Ihe unborn timea " When CALriii'RMA wishes to dissuade C.T. sar from going to the Capitol on the l.ies of March, slip relates the strange appeirance that had been seen in the heavens during the night, and says : When beggars die, there art no comet seen ; The heavens themselves blaza fonh the death of Prince.." Cesar's noble reply intimates that thera are wonders more strange than those seen in the sky : "Coward die miny timea before their death The val ant never taste of death but once, Of all ihe wonder that I yet have heard, It seem to me most strange thut man should fear ; Seeii g that death a neeesry end, Will come when it will come." Barpoi.pii'b nose occasions numerous re ferenei to all sor's of fery phenoim na ; it is likened to a meteor, an ignis latuus ; it is a bonfire, a perpetual illumination. Other poets have used comets for the illumi nation of their pages. The passage in Milto describing the fearful potent as shaking "pesti lence from his horror hair" is tainil.ar enough. The same poet says : 'As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wuged in tharoubbd sky, and armii ruth. To battle in tin rluud." Gray says of the bard : "Looce hi heard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled kir." We note a palpable contradiction in this last quotation. The heard and hair o' the bard to resemble a meteor must have been red yet tho latter is called hoary" or white. Wc pass it over as a poetisal license But Shaks pear would never have made such a mistake. Comets have been regarded in all ages by the multitude aa portending fearful things ; and this age is not unlike preceding ones in thai respect. The strange visitor now in the hca vens is looked upon by many as foreboding nt less a calamity than the destruction of tin world. Its appearance has made numerous ceoverts to Millensm. But we may comfor' ourselves with the hope that it will be as harm Ice j as its predecessors'. '4
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