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122 behind a thick laurel, ready prepared to lend an attentive ear to their conversation.

Dr. Dustacre gave a keen look through his gold mounted spectacles, and made a rapid, but careful, survey of Mr. Bouncer's face and expression. It was such



a look as Van Amburgh may have bestowed upon the lions when he leaped into their den, and stood among them in that picturesque dress which, at the great Duke of Wellington's desire, was represented in a famous picture by Sir Edwin Landseer. But the celebrated lion-tamer had a cast in his eye, which, as was alleged,