My dear old doll I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, and never dared to open my heart, to anybody else.
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It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals, said he, to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.Charles Dickens
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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast . . .
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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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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