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CONCLUSION

Therefore you are a fool. Epimendicularly proved. However it contains 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-informed 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 subject on which I have theories, but as it may be said latius patere we will dogmatize more at leizure or another time.

The princess did not come. I might have known she would not. Whenever 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 Highgate in the same way, and on numberless other like occasions have had the same success. However, determined