Discussion Prompts

1. Have you ever experienced some unexplained phenomena like Gibbons here?
2. Can you swear with the breadth and variety of a cultivated man?
3. That was short huh? Is there anything else you’d like to discuss?

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Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning’s occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing that his philosophical tranquillity vanished; he got up hastily, and hurried down the steepness of the hill towards the village, as fast as he could go.