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The travelling entomologist can stick numerous species, the joy of the collector and the nomenclator, into his boxes; but to gather circumstantial evidence is a very different matter. A Wandering Jew of science, he has no time to stop. Where a prolonged stay would be necessary to study this or that fact, he is hurried past the next stage.
Voila tout!" "Perfectly satisfactory," replied I. "Or, short and sweet, as Lady Babbleton would say," replied Lady Harriett, laughing. "In antithesis to her daughters, who are long and sour." "About four hours and a half!" "Then you don't know any of the lions here?" "None." "Well, let me dispatch Lady Babbleton, and I'll then devote myself to being your nomenclator."
I suppose that you, being blessed with her acquaintance, do not need the formality of my introduction?" "Umph!" said the stranger, rather shortly and uncourteously. "No! Perhaps you had better present me!" "By what name shall I have that honour, sir?" discreetly inquired the nomenclator. "Clifford!" answered the stranger; "Captain Clifford!"
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