As many times as I recall, and all of you who are not family members like me, have recalled this incident time and again over the last 10 years, I never fail to be astonished, literally astonished by the courage they demonstrated.

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It is impossible not to be astonished anew by the display of the Met's five Vermeers and 19 Rembrandts, which are assembled in their own galleries for the first time, and the brilliant display of early Netherlandish portraits, one of several thematic groupings that interrupt the chronology with focal points one might otherwise miss.

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The visitor to a restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel near Hyde Park will be astonished to find a room there full of paintings by an Australian artist, Robert Campbell Junior, who died in 1993, aged 49.

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But, I would be astonished if the general public were willing to tolerate the punishing tax burdens implied by these dismal figures.

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