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WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?
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addressed to him, London itself was now empty. Lionel found a quiet lodging in the vicinity of Twickenham. And when his foot passed along the shady lane through yon wicket gate into that region of turf and flowers, he felt as might have felt that famous Minstrel of Ercildoun, when, blessed with the privilege to enter Fairy-land at will, the Rhymer stole to the grassy hill-side, and murmured the spell that unlocks the gates of Oberon.
