Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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