the night immediately before he was discoursing of, and lighting the art of those foolish Astrologers, and Genethliacall Ephemerists

, rough, rude, rudimentary

“Unquestionably his metabolism is unduly susceptible to stresses resulting from the interaction of external excitations,” he said, and Bobbie patted him on the shoulder in a maternal sort of way, a thing I wouldn't have cared to do myself though our relations were, as I have indicated, more cordial than they had been at one time, and told him he had said a mouthful.

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