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"And having once turned round, walks on, / And turns no more his head, / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread." / Ancient Mariner.
HOWEVER highly Mr. Sheridan's intellectual faculties might be rated by foreign philosophers, and corresponding _savants_, yet, like the typical prophet, he had no honour in his own country, and was credited by the most lenient, with wanting at least one day in the week! Even Andy All Right (who was dimly conscious of his own deficiencies), had more than once been heard to draw comparisons between himself and his master, which were by no means to the latter's advantage.