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"What an unpleasant surprise it must have been to Klingenspiel," / remarked the emir, when he had completed his narration, "to find all / his fine experimenting in the science of heredity merely resulting in / nearly accomplishing his own death."
"His experience is not unique," said Mr. Middleton. "There is many an / economic, social, political, or industrial change which is inaugurated / with the highest hopes only to slay its author in the end."