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John Martindale is one of those eccentric beings—half-aristocrat, and half-liberal, which are more rare in society than they were fifty years since; and upon this curious compound turns the narrative.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 by Various