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"Possibly," said Julius, seeming scarcely interested; "though the name of Courtney, I believe, is not very uncommon." Then, turning to Lefevre, he said, "I hope you don't think I wish to make light of your grand idea. I only mean that you must widen your view, if you would work it out to success." With that Lefevre became more curious to hear Dr Rippon's story.
And why was he nightly haunting the busiest pavements of London, in the crowd, but not of it, urged on as by some desire or agony? He went to bed, but not to sleep. In the quiet and the darkness his imagination ranged without constraint over the whole field of his questionings. He went back upon Dr Rippon's story of the Spanish marquis, and fixed on the mention of his occult studies.
" You have a glimpse of a man who looks well, something like me; and you instantly conclude, 'Ah! the Courtney person the friend of Dr Rippon's youth! and, surely, some relative of my friend Julius! Next day this hospital case turns up, and because the description of its author, given by more or less unobservant persons, fits the person you saw, argal, you jump to the conclusion that the three are one!
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