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He read The Tinctured Veil in print, with curious wistful wonder. "How did I come to write it? " was his thought.
Thereafter Felix Kennaston, as the world knows, wrote no more books, save to collect his later verses into a volume. "I am afraid to write against the author of The Tinctured Veil," he was wont flippantly to declare. And a few of us suspected even then that he spoke the absolute truth.