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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling he kills exiles imprisons or so humiliates him that the other like a fool dies of grief.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger he had reared it and used to play with it but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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