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BOOK IX. 

THE BONES OF THE DEAD. 

CHAPTER I. 

William, Count of the Normans, sate in a fair chamber of his palace of
Rouen; and on the large table before him were ample evidences of the
various labours, as warrior, chief, thinker, and statesman, which
filled the capacious breadth of that sleepless mind. 

There lay a plan of the new port of Cherbourg, and beside it an open
MS.  of the Duke's favourite book, the Commentaries of Caesar, from
which, it is said, he borrowed some of the tactics of his own martial
science; marked, and dotted, and interlined with his large bold