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 INTRODUCTION personal acquaintance with many they had otherwise vainly wished to know in their habit as they lived. And "old Crabb" himself moves among his comrades, still, as in a society which has long since passed away, active, vivacious, sympathetic, understanding, and intensely alive, cheering them by his buoyant spirit."