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Tarried the Cat’ual, standing mute before the first of painted forms that stood in sight; who for Device in hand a leaf-branch bore, with meteor-beard, long-flowing, flossy-white.
“Whose counterfeit presentment this; wherefore the strange device he holdeth in his right?”
When Paul, with sober accents answering said— while the wise Moor for both interpretèd:—