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- April 19, 1891.
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OTHER PROSE PIECES
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DANIEL ORME
(_Omitted from ‘Billy Budd’_)
A profound portrait-painter like Titian or our famous countryman
Stewart, what such an observer sees in any face he may earnestly study,
that essentially is the man. To disentangle his true history from
contemporary report is superfluous. Not so with us who are scarce
Titians and Stewarts. Occasionally we are struck by some exceptional
aspect instantly awakening our interest. But it is an interest that in
its ignorance is full of commonplace curiosity. We try to ascertain from
somebody the career and experience of the man, or may seek to obtain the
information from himself. But what we hear from others may prove but
unreliable gossip, and he himself, if approached, prove uncommunicative.
In short, in most instances he turns out to be like a meteoric stone in
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