Peeps at People

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Bangs John Kendrick. Peeps at People

NANSEN

MR. HALL CAINE

EMPEROR WILLIAM

MR. ALFRED AUSTIN

ANDREW LANG

ZOLA

SIR HENRY IRVING

IAN MACLAREN

RUDYARD KIPLING

THE DE RESZKES

HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ

GENERAL WEYLER

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I do not know why it should have happened so, but it did happen that after my interview with Nansen I felt gloomy in my soul, and hence naturally sought congenial company. My first inclination was to run down to Greece and take luncheon with King George, but when I came to look over my languages, the only bit of Greek I could speak fluently turned out to be hoi polloi, and from private advices I gather that that is the only bit of Greek that his honor the King has no use for. Therefore I bought a ticket straight through to Gloomster Abbey, Isle of Man – the residence of Hall Caine.

Appropriately enough, it was midnight when I arrived. It was a moonlight night, but there were a dozen clouds on the horizon and directly in the wake of the moon's rays, so that all was dark. From the abbey itself no single ray of light gleamed, and all was still, save the croaking of the tree-toads in the moat, and the crickets on the roof of the parapet.

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"It is a pitiless shame!" I cried.

"It is in the interest of art, madame," said the novelist, shrugging his shoulders. "Just as our surgeons have to vivisect for

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