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"I am glad of that, because that is transmissible. What do you think was
the matter with him, then?"
"Well, I don't really know. The family used to run a good deal to
idiots, and so, maybe--"
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Oh, there isn't any maybe about it. This one was an idiot."
Well, yes--he could have been. He was suspected."
Suspected!" said Sally, with irritation. "Would one suspect there was
going to be a dark time if he saw the constellations fall out of the sky?
But that is enough about the idiot, I don't take any interest in idiots;
tell me about the son."
"Very well, then, this one was the eldest, but not the favorite. His
brother, Zylobalsamum--"
"Wait--give me a chance to realize that. It is perfectly stupefying.
Zylo--what did you call it?"
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Zylobalsamum."
I never heard such a name: It sounds like a disease. Is it a disease?"
No, I don't think it's a disease. It's either Scriptural or--"
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