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Pedantically conscious of imparting his stored wisdom to the attentive listener, whom he desired to entertain, he glowed with ingenuous enthusiasm while he commented, in mildly magisterial fashion, on books and authors.

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry