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Excerpt from Noble Words and Noble Deeds
I found their numbers included one clergyman, who had been born to a large fortune and a good name, and who had made the most liberal use of his money; a half-pay officer of some rank; 'an artist; a learned man; an historian, who has added much by his writing to the choice collection of the French Academy; and lastly an old workman, whose industry had raised him to the position of an independent gentle man.
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