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man,” continued the interpreter, “but has suffered terribly from” (here there came a long word that I could not quite catch, only it was much longer than kleptomania), “and has but lately recovered from embezzling a large sum of money under singularly distressing circumstances; but he has quite got over it, and the straighteners say that he has made a really wonderful recovery: you are sure to like him.”

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