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The Jesuit, who was a convert, and had been a distinguished Cambridge man, considered for a moment. "Oh! yes I remember the man! A strange being, who was only heard of, if I recollect right, in times of war. If there was any dispute going especially on a religious point Stephen Fountain would rush into it with broad-sheets.
It might be that the reading matter of a magazine would not be much superior to that of a small weekly paper. But at least it encourages somewhat more sustained reading and, what is the great fact, it accustoms the reader to handling something in the form of a book. That is the virtue. A people weaned from the broad-sheets by magazines readily takes next to book-reading.
He was of Royalist sympathies; but his hobby was to collect impartially all the pamphlets, broad-sheets, &c., that teemed from the press on both sides, and not only those that teemed from the English press, but also all published abroad that bore on current English questions.
The oddest, naivest things! the metre of Tasso, the thoughts of a child and every now and then the cry a poet. And he repeated a stanza or two from these broad-sheets of the war, in a rolling and musical Italian. The Contessa looked at him with cool admiration; and then aside, at Lucy. Certainly, when this Englishman was taking pains, his good-looks deserved all that could be said of them.
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