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CHAPTER XX.
IN WHICH THE MAJOR LEARNS THAT NO MAN IS NECESSARY.
For six days Troy continued to rejoice, winding up each day with a
dance. We will content ourselves, however, with one last extract
from _The Plymouth and Dock Telegraph_:
"At noon on Thursday the town assembled again and escorted its
Mayor and Mayoress to the Hymen Hospital, where, in the presence
of a distinguished company, Mrs. Hansombody (ward and heiress of
the late S. Hymen) unveiled a bust of her gallant kinsman, whose
premature heroic death Troy has never ceased to lament.
Sir Felix Felix-Williams made eulogistic reference to the
deceased, remarking on the number of instances by which the late
war had confirmed the truth of the Roman poet's observation that
it is pleasant and seemly to die for one's country. The Mayor
responded on behalf of his amiable lady, whom Sir Felix's
tribute had visibly affected. The sculpture was pronounced to
be a lifelike image, reflecting great credit on the artist,
Mr. Tipping, R.A. The pedestal, five feet in height, is of
polished black Luxulyan granite, and bears name and date with
the words 'Take Him for All in All We shall not Look upon his
Like again.' The bust, executed in plaster of Paris, will be
replaced by marble when funds allow. The crowd dispersed in
silence after the ceremony.
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