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a life of delight, remorse, pleasures ending in grief, troubles blossoming into joy, of systematic hypocrisy, the only restraint upon an otherwise unbridled love - a life of nervousness, anger, despair, jealousy, all of them paid for in full by one hour; but another hour would come and would swallow up the first and everything that went with it, leaving only the nervousness and the dregs, and the dregs of the dregs