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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XIV
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Our own learned men have been blind.

The whole chain of reasoning is so clear.
Every article of human food contains its separate particles, affecting the moral as well as the physical system.

Why should it have been deemed necromancy to endeavor to combine these parts, to evolve by careful elimination and change the perfect food?
In the house, young man, which you have told me of, there died the hero of the greatest discovery which has ever been made since the world began to spin upon its orbit." "Will Miss Edith be back to-morrow ?" Burton asked.
The professor stared at him.
"Miss Edith ?" he repeated.

"Oh! my daughter?
Is she not in ?" "She is away for two days, your servant told me," Burton replied.
"Perhaps so--perhaps so," the professor agreed.

"She has gone to her aunt's, very likely, in Chelsea.


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