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called. Tong hetore the titde was his inoreality, had found occasion o return abroad for scientific purposes. Dut, as aorule, 1o was o be met with every day, cither pacing thouzht- fullv beside the wide sea, or passing rapidly across the green waste behind the straggling vitlage, on the way to the mountains hevond.

The vears went bye o Professor Morgan became o shimg heht e the archeological science @ but cach vear as it passed scemed to bind him down more and more trevocably o solitude of heart. The shunning of all companmonship. which at first had heen bhut the instinet of awounded and sensttive spirit, became at length a fixed habit, which he was too shy and reserved to break through. Fach vear inereased the stoop of the Professor’s shoulders, the bald- ness of his head, and the terrific development of his forchead. ach year the sad, shy eyes grew sadder and shyer, and were more and more rarvely lifted to mect the undis- cerning, unperceptive cyes ol others. Lattle did anvone divine what bitter hours of heart loneliness the misanthropie, unsocial Pro- fessor pussed in the grimy muscum-hke study of his loncly house, or what pamful thoughts, quitc unconnected with bharrows and crom- lechs and Druid cireles, were his datly com- Danions.

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journcey miles avway among the mountams for the purpose of taking fresh observations of o funous cromlech. He had been for two vears ab work upon a history ol croms- lechs,and was at this ttme gathermye material for o chapter on the differences hetween British cromlechs and those of the nations of Germanie deseent. "The journey took him Al the mornig, and when he came within sicht of the village on his return the after- noon sun was blazing atits hottest. About aomile and o half frome the village the road passcd through o rough fickd, m the midst ol which, on o shght clevation. stood the ruins ol an ancient Briosh house. To any hut an antiquary the house had the appear- aneeof bemng nothing more than o shape- Iss heap of stones. "The Professor had a theory of his own concerning its origin and history : and intended one day writing a ngazine article about 1t by way of recrea- tion from his lTaborious and exhaustive work on the cromlechs,

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