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Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2

CHAPTER VIII
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But then, as on all other occasions that I saw him, I should have been prepared to affirm that he was over six feet high and weighed, at least, two hundred.

The same glamour is said to have attended Louis XIV., whose majesty of bearing was such that it never was discovered that he was a man of short stature until he was measured for his coffin.
Mr.Webster was then in the very vigor of his magnificent manhood.

He stood perfectly erect.

His head was finely poised upon his shoulders.

His beautiful black eyes shone out through the caverns of his deep brows like lustrous jewels.
His teeth were white and regular, and his smile when he was in gracious mood, especially when talking to women, had an irresistible charm.


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