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 A Few Faces

UT now I have a few faces which I must exhibit and describe.

Here is Mr. Seton Watson, or Scotus Viator. You all know him, for he fought in our cause like the archangel Gabriel. He has a house in the Isle of Skye, is writing the history of the Serbs, and in the evening plays the pianola by a blazing peat fire. He has a tall and beautiful wife, two waterproof sons and a blue-eyed baby, windows looking out on to the sea and the islands, a child-like mouth and rooms full of ancestors and pictures from the Czech lands: a refined