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Page 8 - House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean; and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar : his hat was without a hatband. His stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish; his voice sharp and...
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| Title | Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 7 Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Edmund Lodge |
| Author | Edmund Lodge |
| Publisher | Harding and Lepard, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2007 |
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