Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
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Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.
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The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree. . .
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A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it . .
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