Memoirs of a Midget

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Walter de la Mare. Memoirs of a Midget

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TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

A wild beast there is in Ægypt, called orix, which the Ægyptians say, doth stand full against the dog starre when it riseth, looketh wistly upon it, and testifieth after a sort by sneesing, a kind of worship.…

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“You are not, I assume, aware of the—the young lady’s normal pulse?”

“There being no cause before to consider it, I am not,” Mrs Bowater returned.

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