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Now let it work: mischief thou art afoot! Take thou what course thou wilt. -SHAKESPEARE (_Julius Cesar_).
"Ah, David," cried Master Simon, in excited greeting, "you come very well to complete our pleasant party-you come well! 'Tis the red-letter day in the calendar of my life. See that flourishing growth? " He waved his spray in the direction of the parent bed. "It is bearing fruit, lad! Seed of health, for the future generation! My long life has borne its fruit at last! Euphrosine. Gladsome Wort. Etoile-de-Bon-Secours. Star-of-Comfort indeed! Behold a more useful constellation than any of yours, aha! I can cry _Eureka_! I can sing _Nunc dimittis_. 'Tis the Elixir of Genius!"