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CONTENTS

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Discretion
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266

An Exile 266

The Division Superintendent 267

To A Professional Eulogist 268

Election Day 270

The Militiaman 271

A Welcome 272

A Serenade 273

The Wise and Good 274

The Lost Colonel 275

For Tat 278

A Dilemma 279

Metempsychosis 281

The Saint and the

Monk 281

In High Life 283

A Whipper-In 284

Judgment 286

A Bubble 286

Francine 288

An Example 289

Revenge -289

The Genesis of Embarrassment 291

In Contumaciam 292

From the Minutes 292

A Woman in Politics 294

A Ballad of Pikeville 295

An Augury 298

Lusus PoLiTicus 299

Bereavement 301

A Pickbrain 302

The Naval Constructor 302

Detected 304

Bimetalism 304

Two Methods 306

Foundations of the State 306

An Impostor 308

France 309

A Guest 310

A False Prophecy 311

A Song of the Many 312

One Morning 313

The King of Bores 313

History 314

The Hermit 315

The Yearly Lie 317

An Apologue 318

Diagnosis 319

Fallen 319

Dies Irm 320

One Mood's Expression 326

Something in the Papers 327

The Binnacle 328

One President 329

The Bride 329

The Man Born Blind 330