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CHAPTER III.

DR. HESSELIUS PICKS UP SOMETHING IN LATIN BOOKS.

ELL, I have called at Blankstreet.

On inquiring at the door, the servant told me that Mr. Jennings was engaged very particularly with a gentleman, a clergyman from Kenlis, his parish in the country. Intending to reserve my privilege and to call again, I merely intimated that I should try another time, and had turned to go, when the servant begged my pardon, and asked me, looking at me a little more attentively