Desperate with fear, I rushed forward with an unceremonious, "You must permit me, Sir - " and felt him. My Wife was right. There was not the trace of an angle, not the slightest roughness or inequality: never in my life had I met with a more perfect Circle. (Edwin Abbott Abbott)

Desperate with fear, I rushed forward with an unceremonious, "You must permit me, Sir - " and felt him. My Wife was right. There was not the trace of an angle, not the slightest roughness or inequality: never in my life had I met with a more perfect Circle.

Edwin Abbott Abbott

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