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64 devotion to the retreating carriage. And the same night he started by rail on his return to Paris.

Here (observes my Arabian Author) in the end of Omitting some reflections on the power of Providence, highly pertinent in the original, but little suited to our occidental taste, I shall only add that Mr. Scuddamore has already begun to mount the ladder of political fame, and by last advices was the Sheriff of his native town.