The postmaster delved more into philosophy and read quite diligently, even at night, in Young’s Night Thoughts and The Key to Nature’s Mysteries by Eckartshausen,37 from which he copied out quite lengthy excerpts, though of what sort no one ever knew; anyhow, he was a wit, had a florid style, and liked, as he put it, to rig out his speech. And rig it out he did, with a host of various particles, such as: “my good sir, some such one, you know, you understand, can you imagine, relatively so to speak, in a certain fashion,” and others, which he poured out by the bagful; he also rigged out his
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