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"He had positive bodily pain,-- a violent headache, and a throbbing intermittent pulse. He could not bear the noise, the garish light.... He called himself a fool for suffering so; and yet he could not, at the moment, recollect the cause of his suffering, and whether it was adequate to the consequences it had produced. His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment...."

30 pages in and there is already a rejected marriage proposal, I’m going to love this book