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and apple-sauce from Denmark Hill), but conscientious and earnest, paying largely in gathered knowledge and insight. I shall often have occasion to speak of him hereafter;¹ it is enough to say in advance that after a few years of this discipline he took his diploma of M. D. with credit, and became an excellent physician-and the best chess-player I have ever known.

¹ [In Pręterita, as left unfinished, there is only one later reference to him; iii. § 11 (p. 484).]

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