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Fleeming Jenkin, calling on his mother, was startled by his voice joining in the conversation. The visitor says, "I listened in perplexity and amasement. Who was this son who talked as Charles Lamb wrote? this young Heine with the Scotch accent? When I came away the unseen converser came down with me to the front door to let me out. I asked him to come and see us.
She stared at me at first in silent amasement; but at last said "How came you here, sir, tell me?" "I was here when you came up; I wanted my football, which was in this closet, and when I heard you coming, I hid myself, I don't know why." For some minutes she seemed to consider and examine me attentively. She then said "Can you be discreet?" "Oh, yes, ma'am."
But to come nearer home, There, to my great Amasement, I found several new Tracts out of our own Language, which I could hardly have imagin'd it possible should have reacht so far. As first, sundry Transactions of our Royal Society about Winds, and a valuable Desertation of Dr. B.....'s about Wind in the Brain. A Discourse of Poisons, by the Learned Dr.
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