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But _passons_.
I have perhaps related this strange episode of my eventful life at too great a length already. Yet you, my reader, may pardon me when you recollect that from out that musty envenomed volume, The Closed Book -- which may be seen by you any day in the manuscript department of the British Museum, placed by itself in a sealed glass case -- there came to me both love and fortune in a manner entirely unexpected.