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Newspaper
Queanbeyan Observer
Location
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 15, 1901
Page
5
A sprawling excerpt from a play or serialized tale features Be L. Farjeon’s mock terror of The Mesmerist. The narrator and characters discuss trials, confessions, and a dramatic scene with Lady Dina, a professor, and a web of witnesses and accusations. The long dialogue weaves through motives, vanities, and a lurid courtroom mood.
The readable scraps mention a famous battle and travelers near the sea. Names and places are garbled, but the patch hints at a wartime or maritime setting with references to weapons, ships, and distant lands. The fragmentary source lacks clear dates, participants, or outcomes.
A garbled text seems to recount an examination scene and a travel narrative with numerous inserted names and stray phrases. The passage veers through examiner roles, pupils, and a long chain of interrupted quotes, interwoven with unrelated musings about poets, travel, and discussions of learning. The fragmentary nature makes coherent facts sparse, but it hints at an academic setting and a travel or literary interlude amid scattered direct speech and digressions.
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