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here and was at one time engaged to our pretty Susan Gray?
He is now in Boston; never heard Wendell Phillips speak till the time of Richard S. Fay's row, then fell desperately in love with him and in all the dangers since was his bodyguard, never leaving him and watching many nights in his house.
This he enjoyed thoroughly, being a trained athlete and a natural soldier.
When I saw him at Wendell's planning with us to mount guard, and then turning to pretty Phoebe-- to arrange little plans to keep everybody still and spare Mrs. P.'s nerves, I thought to myself that the adopted daughter might prove the next attraction, and now it turns out they are engaged.
He is tall, erect, strong, blond, Saxon, and she a brunette with lovely eyes and a Welsh smile — you know her mother was Welsh; they will be a picturesque couple, and it is quite a chivalrous little affair.
The difference between Perry--, of Worcester . . and his brother . . . Elijah is that Elijah not only is insane, but is thought so. Perry is round and rosy; Elijah is tall, straight, with a fine face, and a taste for walking the streets with his hat off, declaiming loudly.
He has travelled a great deal and can take excellent care of himself and property.
His last visit was to Rome to convert the Pope; he is himself a devout Catholic, but has some peculiar views on penances and the like.
Failing in this, he comes to my meetings, where he gently reclines on a bench, as the
