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Stephen Leacock
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"Nay,
father,"
said
Gwendoline,
gently
interrupting,
"Wisconsin
is
not
Edwin's
own
name:
that
is,
I
believe,
the
name
of
his
estate.
My
lover's
name
is
Edwin
Einstein."
"Einstein,"
repeated
the
earl
dubiously--"an
Indian
name
perhaps;
yet
the
Indians
are
many
of
them
of
excellent
family.
An
ancestor
of
mine...."
"Father,"
said
Gwendoline,
again
interrupting,
"here
is
a
portrait
of
Edwin.
Judge
for
yourself
if
he
be
noble."
With
this
she
placed
in
her
father's
hand
an
American
tin-type,
tinted
in
pink
and
brown.
The
picture
represented
a
typical
specimen
of
American
manhood
of
that
Anglo-Semitic
type
so
often
seen
in
persons
of
mixed
English
and
Jewish
extraction.
The
figure
was
well
over
five
feet
two
inches
in
height
and
broad
in
proportion.
The
graceful
sloping
shoulders
harmonized
with
the
slender
and
well-poised
waist,
and
with
a
hand
pliant
and
yet
prehensile.
The
pallor
of
the
features
was
relieved
by
a
drooping
black
moustache.
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