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Gibbon

CHAPTER X
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He saw him twice; once at Eden Farm for a whole day, and was much gratified, we are told.

At last he got to what he called his home--the house of his true and devoted friend, Lord Sheffield.

"But," says the latter, whose narrative of his friend's last illness is marked by a deep and reserved tenderness that does him much honour, "this last visit to Sheffield Place became far different from any he had ever made before.

That ready, cheerful, various and illuminating conversation which we had before admired in him, was not always to be found in the library or the drawing-room.

He moved with difficulty, and retired from company sooner than he had been used to do.


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