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"Often do the spirits / Of great events stride on before the events, / And in to-day already walks to-morrow." / Coleridge.
Instantly a great dread seized me. What revelations might not this man be going to make! But I subdued the feeling; and, greeting him with what cordiality I could, settled myself to listen to his explanations.