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I have only to add, in regard to the Musee Fabre, that it contains the portrait of its founder, a little, pursy, fat-faced, elderly man, whose countenance con- tains few indications of the power that makes distin- guished victims.
"The first man who speaks," he said, "I will kill him on the spot." Again he applied himself to his task. The whirl was again lowered, this time to the depth of twenty fathoms, but for half an hour or more not a shark could be distin- guished; but as the waters far below seemed somehow to be troubled I could not help believing that some of the brutes at least were still there.
He had cultivated science, in his dazzling academical career, with ardour and success; he had renewed the study, on his first retirement to Fawley, as a distraction from tormenting memories or unextin guished passions. He now for the first time regarded the absorbing abstruse occupation as a possible source of fame.