”His figure was large and well formed, and his countenanceof the cast of an ancient statue; yet his appearancewas rendered strange and somewhat uncouth,by convulsive cramps, by the scars of thatdistemper which it was once imagined the royaltouch could cure, and by a slovenly mode of dress.He had the use of only one eye; yet so much doesthe mind govern, and even supply the deficiency oforgans, that his visual perceptions were quick andaccurate. So morbid was his temperament, that henever knew the natural joy of a free and vigouroususe of his limbs; when he walked, it was like thejuggling gait of one in fetters.”
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