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." "What is Slavonian, brother ?" "The family name of certain nations, the principal of which is the Russian, and from which the word slave is originally derived.

You have heard of the Russians, Jasper ?" "Yes, brother; and seen some.

I saw their crallis at the time of the peace; he was not a bad-looking man for a Russian." "By-the-bye, Jasper, I'm half inclined to think that crallis {272} is a Slavish word.

I saw something like it in a lil called 'Voltaire's Life of Charles XII.' How you should have come by such names and words is to me incomprehensible." "You seem posed, brother." "I really know very little about you, Jasper." "Very little indeed, brother.