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Rh nucleus around which their thoughts, their remembrances, and their passions clung. The great gulf was passed; they stood on the same shore; and felt, that though still apart and disunited, on that shore was no living creature but themselves! Meanwhile, Augustus Tomlinson, on finding himself surrounded by persons eager to gaze and to listen, broke from his moodiness and reserve. Looking full at his next neighbour, and flourishing his right hand in the air, till he suffered it to rest in the direction of the houses and chimneys below; he repeated that moral exclamation, which had been wasted on Clifford, with a more solemn and a less passionate gravity than before.

"What a subject, Ma'am, for contemplation!"

"Very sensibly said, indeed, Sir," said the lady addressed, who was rather of a serious turn.

"I never," resumed Augustus in a louder key, and looking round for auditors,—"I never see a great town from the top of a hill, without thinking of an Apothecary's Shop!"

"Lord, Sir!" said the lady. Tomlinson's end