No; 5 John Street (Classic Reprint)

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He came back to London with the highest hopes, but, alas! They were cut short by his un timely death. I have always thought that this event had a moral as well as a physical cause, and that, to use the jargon Of athletics, my friend had overtrained his spirit for the race Of life, and grown stale. On this point, it only remains to add in bare mention that the aged governor of the island had a daughter, a beautiful creature, with a mind like the crystal depths Of her own seas, and a shape, developed by sun, sea, air, and daily feats of daring, which suggested 3. Venus Of Milo restored by the hand Of God. But Of the more sacred subject Of the dead man's relations with her it does not become me to speak in detail.

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