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almost everything-he had about him: , . When telling - Foaque

Of tills "adventure after iis iaturn, the Baron asked hini with a

smile, LIfid you not also lose your shade* . . . Here was the germ which aftei-viarde developed into Peter Sehlemd." In spite of the inanyAtiadnlysterieus possibilities of this idea, Chamiddo did not succeed in making Ins story concrete, and though we are interested Lelia min in the grey coat; his presence does not inspire the mime-_ less heifer which that of PotalOs Little Master does. But the popularity of the book is undoubted: , Jacobs says that it has been translated' into almost every EurOPeati tongue, sometimes more

than pnce.".

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