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 Gilbert was an admonition to wear a stomacher and longer petticoats.

Sir, your story makes for my side of the question. It proves that the devil, in the likeness of a fair damsel, with short petticoats and no stomacher, was almost too much for Gilbert Folliott. The force of the spell was in the drapery.

Bless my soul, sir!

Give me leave, sir. Diderot—

Who was he, sir?

Who was he, sir? the sublime philosopher, the father of the encyclopædia, of all the encyclopædias that have ever been printed.