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"Fickle fortune has deceived me: / She promised fair, and performed but ill. " -- _Burns._
Events were following in quick succession across John Redgrave's life, like the presentments of a magic lantern; and it seemed to him at times with a like unreality. But reason, in hours of compulsory attention, proved with cold logic that they were only too harshly true.