Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp seeking but a moment's rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere
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