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It was necessary to include such terms to keep up the practice, but the writer has not thought of using them to add to the comic effect: one cannot always think of everything.
Trouble has been taken, of course, to include enumerations, but there are much fewer fabricated and fantastic words.
In short, the hand of the maker is far from showing the same suppleness and strength. A eulogistic quatrain is signed Nature quite, which, it is generally agreed, is an anagram of Jean Turquet.
Did the adapter of the fifth book sign his work in this indirect fashion? He might be of the Genevese family to whom Louis Turquet and his son Theodore belonged, both well-known, and both strong Protestants.
The obscurity relating to this matter is far from being cleared up, and perhaps never will be. It fell to my lot--here, unfortunately, I am forced to speak of a personal matter--to print for the first time the manuscript of the fifth book.
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