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The craze for notoriety is penetrating our very almshouses, and every toothless old mumbler of ninety wants to get himself palmed off as a centenarian in the papers and have a lot of stuff printed about him."
The red-beard filled a large beaker, and offered it first to a forger and his fettered companion, then he approached Pentaur, and whispered: "Do not drink any-keep awake!" As he was going to warn the physician too, one of his companions came between them, and offering his tankard to Nebsecht said: "Here mumbler, drink; see him pull! His stuttering mouth is spry enough for drinking!"
But in the abbey at that time was a cloister-monk named Friar John of the Trenchermen, young, gallant, frisky, lusty, nimble, quick, active, bold, resolute, tall, wide-mouthed, and long-nosed; a fine mumbler of matins, a fair runner through masses, and a great scourer of vigils to put it short, a true monk, if ever there was one since the monking world monked a monkery.
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