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“For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.”

“Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate which broke from me frightened me into silence again.”