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Mr. Howard had been but a short time with the Osbornes when he was obliged to confess that he had made a mistake in coming.
A man of singular charm of manner, eminently gifted for social success, he had as little vanity as well might be; and his devotion to literature engendered in him a sort of absent-mindedness which rendered him unconscious of things which were sufficiently obvious to others.