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THE DUKE OF BURMINSTER'S STORY
From the Bath, in its most exotic form, degenerate patrician youth passed to the coarse delights of the Circus, and thence to that parody of public duties which it was still the fashion of their class to patronise. -- VON LETTERBECK: Imperial Rome.