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Here the stranger seesworth's character and purposes, that he burst into a fit of

h already

alluded to, but iht, he opened his old band around the

upper part of his teeth, thereby rinders and incisors was a sham This discovery

affected me very oddly

I felt as if the whole ; his

wonderful beauty of face, for aught I knew, ht be reure looked, he was perhaps but a

wizened little elf, gray and decrepit, with nothing genuine about hirin The fantasy of his spectral

character so wrought upon e h as loudly as

himself

By and by, he paused all at once; so suddenly, indeed, that er

"Ah, excuse me!" said he "Our interview seean"

"It ends here," answered I "And I take shaht of resenting your ridicule of a friend"