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Excerpt from Peveril of the Peak, Vol. 1
I no sooner found that this manuscript consisted of a narrative, running to the length of perhaps three hundred and thirty pages in each volume, or thereabouts, than it instantly occurred to me from whom this boon came; and having set myself to peruse the written sheets, I be gan to entertain strong expectations that I might, perad venture, next see the author himself.
Again, it seems to, me a marked circumstance, that whereas an inner apartment of Mr. Constable's shop was thought a place of sufficient solemnity for your audience, our venerable senior was pleased to afford mine in the recesses of my own lodgings, infra parietes, as it were, and without the chance of interruption. I must also remark, that the features, form, and dress Of the Eidolon, as you well term the apparition of our parent, seemed to me more precisely distinct than was vouchsafed to you on the former occasion. Of this hereafter; but heaven forbid I should glory or set up any claim of superiority over the other descendants Of our common parent, from such decided marks Of his preference - Lexus propria; sordet. I am well satisfied that the honour was bestown not on my person, but my cloth - that the preference lid not elevate Jonas Dryasdust over Clutterbuck, but the Doctor Of Divinity over the Captain. Cedant arma toga: -a maxim never to be forgotten at any time, but especially to be remembered when the soldier is upon half-pay.
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