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in an atmosphere of candle-light and chanting, in his own sitting in one of the most fashionable churches in Folkestone. . . . I have refrained from the lightest touch upon the tragic note that must now creep into my tale. Yet the net of his low connections has been about his feet, and moreover there was something interwoven in his being. . . .

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