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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER LVII
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The single discharges which are heard in Porpheero; here come condensed in one tremendous report.

Every arrival is a firing off of events by platoons." Now, during this tumultuous interval, King Media very prudently kept himself exceedingly quiet.

He doffed his regalia; and in all things carried himself with a dignified discretion.

And many hours he absented himself; none knowing whither he went, or what his employment.
So also with Babbalanja.

But still pursuing our search, at last we all journeyed into a great valley, whose inhabitants were more than commonly inflated with the ardor of the times.
Rambling on, we espied a clamorous crowd gathered about a conspicuous palm, against which, a scroll was fixed.
The people were violently agitated; storming out maledictions against the insolent knave, who, over night must have fixed there, that scandalous document.


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