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...confidential knock at the door the other afternoon, followed, with scarce a pause for an answer, by the entrance of a little old man. Closing the door behind him with brisk gentleness, he glided forward, and with the smile and manner of an old family friend, said, "Had your head examined? guess I didn't see you t' other day; have n't had your head examined, have you?" Politely motioning toward a friend who happened to be in the room, I pretended to be absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair by the window, closely studying...
...said the little man, "you 're desirous of submitting your head to the skilful manipulation of an experienced phrenologist. There's lots of lives wasted because people don't find out what they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor of this science for thirty-seven years and eight months will unfold to you, for the paltry sum of fifty cents, truths about yourself worth millions. Here, sir, is the most valuable thing you ever...
...Here's Franklin," confidentially remarked the old man, hitching his chair up closer, - "individuality, perception, lightning was his playground, you know; economy, - Poor Richard's Almanac's right there, you see. Here's the murderer of a whole family; destructiveness right in his head, - never had it examined, and so had to be hanged. That's a perfect woman's head, imaginary; don't make 'em that way nowadays, you know...
...Here's the head of a full grown idiot," said the old man, eagerly, "and here's a celebrated thief and liar, I don't know but what you knew...
...saying as I came back, - "no, I don't think you 've rightly chosen your path in life. You 're scarcely fitted for the ministry. Spirituality - you see, - reverence, veneration, very small and there 's development here," passing his hand over the back of Renardy's head and neck; "that the Boston folks, you know, don't like in their ministers, though it's popular enough down in Brooklyn. You 'd make a good soldier, now, - large nose...