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 mical, mathematical, metaphysical, meteorological, anatomical, physiological, galvanistical, musical, pictorial, bibliographical, critical philosopher, who had run through the whole circle of the sciences, and understood them all equally well; that is, not at all.

Mr. Milestone was impatient to take a walk round the grounds, that he might examine how far the system of clumping and levelling could be carried advantageously into effect. The ladies retired to enjoy each other's society in the first happy moments of meeting: the Reverend Doctor Gaster sat by the library fire, in profound meditation over a volume of the "Almanach des Gourmands:" Mr. Panoscope sat in the opposite corner with a volume of Rees's Cyclopedia: Mr. Cranium was busy up stairs: Mr. Chromatic retreated to the music-room, where he fiddled through a book of solos before the ringing of the first