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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
CHAPTER I.
'A FAIR VESTAL, THRONED IN THE WEST.'
It may be premised of the persons named in the preceding list that the aim of meaning of their appearance upon earth—what in its highest sense they came into the world to do; if much, if little, or whether to be only lookers-on, and to do nothing at all—will receive but a faint analysis. Even from among their social tones and humours (in the meanest cases a congeries of significant phenomena) we can select but a sweet or bitter here and there in hastening along. In
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