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78 Browning's—in technique—that is, in rushing rhythms and ingenious rhymes. It is an incredible success, with no hint of a tour-de-force performance. Its content, too, is worthy of the metrical achievement. I will lay the proof before the competent reader in an extract or two from this remarkable accomplishment:

So begins the Sequel. Another passage, near the end, will indicate the trend of the story:

The years passed by, as years will do,

When trouble is the master,

And always strives to bring to view

A new and worse disaster;