john3859
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led by ailmentswhich kept him hobbling in and out of
the room; one foot gouty; a wig for decencynot for deceptionon his
head; close shavedexcept under his chin - and for that he never failed to
apologisefor it went sore against the traditions of his life. You can
imagine how he would fare in a novel by Miss Mather; yet this rag of a
Chelsea veteran lived to his last year in the plenitude of all that is best in
manbrimming with human kindnessand staunch as a Roman soldier
under his manifold infirmities. You could not say that he had lost his
memoryfor he would repeat Shakespeare and Webster and Jeremy
Taylor and Burke by the page together; but the parchment was filled up
there was no room for fresh inscriptionsand he was capable of
repeating the same anecdote on many successive visits. His voice
survived in its full powerand he took a pride in using it. On his last
voyage as Commissioner of lighthouseshe hailed a ship at sea and
made himself clearly audible without a speaking trumpetruffling the
while with a proper vanity in his achievement. He had a habit of eking
out his words with interrogative hemswhich was puzzling and a little
wearisomesuited ill with hi [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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men always take it
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