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There were fully half a dozen which had been sent to him by the curator of the museum at Norwich, sulphur-casts of seals recently acquired by that institution. The blind man had put aside that morning to examine them, and settled himself to his task with the keen and pleasurable anticipation of the expert. They were very fine specimens.
Here they are;" and she placed them before the helpless and afflicted man, endeavouring to remain undisturbed, and taking a chair at his side, as was her habit when they sat together. "Yes," he said cheerfully. "Let us see what they are." The first of the yellow sulphur-casts which he examined bore the full-length figure of an abbot, with mitre and crosier, in the act of giving his blessing.
She only glanced at the sad, expressionless face, and, cutting the string of the small packet, displayed three bronze seals two oval, about two inches long, and the third round, about one inch in diameter, and each with a small kind of handle on the reverse. With them were sulphur-casts or impressions taken from them, ready to be placed in the museum at Cambridge.
And then he gave the girl the titles of several works, which she got down from the shelves, and from which she read extracts after some careful search. The sulphur-casts sent with the matrices she placed carefully with her father's collection, and during the remainder of the evening they were occupied in replying to several letters regarding estate matters.
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