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SCARCELY had Percival finished reading his legend, when we were interrupted by the visit of the medical man. Having other calls to make, I took my leave of Percival, promising to return on the following day, to make myself better acquainted with his little picture gallery.
The next morning, after some conversation on other subjects, we examined together another oil-painting taken down from the wall.