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CONCLUSION

Therefore you are a fool.
Epimendicularly proved. However it con-
tains two assumptions you might not
perhaps allow me.

I do not see the precise object of
your tirade; I am afraid I must call
it tirade, or - a favourite word of
mine - rhodomontade. It is weak,
you know; and conscious. What
you say about a man whose powers
are above mediocrity being a "greater
fool than a simple, decently well-in-
formed etc." contains thought and
truth. You remember that after More's
execution, one of his contemporaries
doubted whether to call him a foolish
wise man or a wise fool. Some one
of the same age also says of some
one else that he had not wit enough
to play the fool. Indeed it is a sub-
ject on which I have theories, but
as it may be said latius patere
we will dogmatize more at leizure
at another time.

The princess did not come. I might
have known she would not. Whene-
ver I wait on a contingency like
that, inevitably I am disappointed.
I am the victim of false alarms. I
have waited to see the Queen come
up to Miss Burdett Coutts's at High-
gate in the same way, and on num-
berless other like occasions have had
the same success. However, determined

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