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PAUL CLIFFORD.
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CHAPTER IX.
Relate at large, my godlike guest, she said.
The Grecian stratagems,—the town betrayed!
Dryden's Virgil, b. ii. Æn.
Descending thence, they 'scaped!
Ibid.
A great improvement had taken place in the character of Augustus Tomlinson, since Paul had last encountered that illustrious man. Then, Augustus had affected the man of pleasure,—the learned lounger about town,—the all-accomplished Pericles of the Papers—now quoting Horace—now flanking a fly from the leader of Lord Dunshunner; in a word, a sort of human half-way house between Lord Dudley and the Marquis of Worcester.
