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Septimus

CHAPTER XIV
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It would clear the path of obstacles and leave the Cure free to pursue its universal way as _consolatrix afflictorum_.
The traveler finished his peach, and accepted another which his host hospitably selected for him.
"All the same, sir," said he, "this is the biggest thing you've struck.

May I ask how you came to strike it ?" "Like all great schemes, it had humble beginnings," said Sypher, in comfortable postprandial mood, unconsciously flattered by the admiration of his subordinate.

"Newton saw an apple drop to the ground: hence the theory of gravitation.

The glory of Tyre and Sidon arose from the purple droppings of a little dog's mouth who had been eating shell fish.

The great Cunarders came out of the lid of Stephenson's family kettle.


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