THE DYKGRAVE'S RETURN
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saying, with rough professional bluntness:—
"Madame, either I am a perfect ass, or this high-spirited young fellow will do honour to your name. He has genius, your grandson; he is of the stamp of those from whom the Future recruits her artists, conquerors and apostles!"
"Ah! would that he were rather of the stamp of those elected to happiness!" sighed the Dowager, but little ambitious, although of course, flattered by these predictions of glory.
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