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It will be as well to bring into one chapter such references to Lowell's work as a public speaker as may give some idea of the interest with which he was always heard, and, indeed, of his own evident enjoyment of the position of an orator.
He spoke with absolute simplicity, with entire ease, and he really enjoyed public speaking.