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Filled with wonder at the reports that reached them, and curious to solve the mystery that enshrouded Prester John and his wonderful kingdom, the Portuguese went on making their searches, under Pedre de Covilham, of renown, fixed upon Abyssinia, entered it, and secured the friendship of the chief ruler.
Landor" rather ceremoniously and submissively. There was a certain "Caro Pedre Abete Marina" invariably so addressed in these anecdotes who figured through a great many of them, and who always expressed himself in this deferential tone. Mr. Forster writes of Landor's character thus: "A man must be judged, at first, by what he says and does.
While I strolled about the waiting room, conversing with M. Villemain about Cracow, the Vienna treaties and the frontier of the Rhine, I could hear the buzzing of the groups around me, and scraps of conversation reached my ears. BARON PEDRE LACAZE. He is getting old. VISCOUNT CAVAIGNAC. Sixty-nine years! MARQUIS DR RAIGECOURT. Who is the dean of the Chamber of Peers at present?
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