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A Young Man of my acquaintance having passed his twenty-eighth birthday, and wrongly imagining this date to represent the Grand Climacteric, went by night in some perturbation to an Older Man and spoke to him as follows:
"Sir! I have intruded upon your leisure in order to ask your advice upon certain matters."