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wonder, a thing to creep to covertly and peep at, as a child might peep
upon a forbidden garden. But Mr. Wace has, for a young scientific
investigator, a particularly lucid and consecutive habit of mind.
+Directly the crystal and its story came to him, and he had satisfied
himself, by seeing the phosphorescence with his own eyes, that there
really was a certain evidence for Mr. Cave's statements, he proceeded to
develop the matter systematically. Mr. Cave was only too eager to come
</para>
<para>
- This came as a great shock to Wace, and he began to reproach ho,self
+ This came as a great shock to Wace, and he began to reproach himself
bitterly for having neglected the plain symptoms of the old man's
ill-health. But his chief thought was of the crystal. He approached that
topic in a gingerly manner, because he knew Mrs. Cave's peculiarities.
upstairs, had been to write to the mad clergyman who had offered five
pounds for the crystal, informing him of its recovery; but after a
violent hunt in which her daughter joined her, they were convinced
-</para>
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-<para>
of the loss of his address. As they were without the means required to
mourn and bury Cave in the elaborate style the dignity of an old Seven
Dials inhabitant demands, they had appealed to a friendly