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II
There lies to-day, in the midst of a great house, the body of a man awaiting the last honors which can be rendered to it.
A week ago the doings of that man stirred two countries; two countries, to-day, are shaken by the news of his death. The hundreds to whom he was good and generous, mourn it; those who bore him ill-will are shocked by it; the world regrets it. For all join in remembering that the
