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These two causes made him answer in a very low and hesitating voice; whereupon a gentleman in a white waistcoat said he was a fool. Which was a capital way of raising his spirits, and putting him quite at his ease.
The crisis of the disease was safely past. He belonged to the world again.
He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.
‘There is no pursuit more worthy of me: more worthy of the highest nature that exists: than the struggle to win such a heart as yours,’