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RUDE DISMISSAL.
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impersonation of Judas Iscariot, or one of Milton's fallen angels.

He spake not a word; but rising from the couch on which he had been seated and glaring on me even more like an enraged demon than before; he pointed imperiously to the doorway!

Remonstrance and explanation were rendered alike impossible by such a summary proceeding; and in a few minutes I was gazing for the last time—and rather indignantly—upon the holy father's mansion; from between the two lines of trees facing it in the street.