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The Solitary Summer
·
Elizabeth Von Arnim
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To
go
on
eating
long
after
you
have
ceased
to
be
hungry
has
fascinations,
apparently,
that
are
difficult
to
withstand,
and
if
it
gives
you
so
much
pleasure
that
the
resulting
inability
to
move
without
gasping
is
accepted
with
the
meekness
of
martyrs,
who
shall
say
that
you
are
wrong?
My
not
myself
liking
a
large
dinner
at
one
o'clock
is
not
a
reason
for
my
thinking
I
am
superior
to
those
who
do.
Their
excesses,
it
is
true,
are
not
my
excesses,
but
then
neither
are
mine
theirs;
and
what
about
the
days
of
idleness
I
spend,
doing
nothing
from
early
till
late
but
lie
on
the
grass
watching
clouds?
If
I
were
to
murmur
gluttons,
could
not
they,
from
their
point
of
view,
retort
with
conviction
fool?
All
those
maxims
about
judging
others
by
yourself,
and
putting
yourself
in
another
person's
place,
are
not,
I
am
afraid,
reliable.
I
had
them
dinned
into
me
constantly
as
a
child,
and
I
was
constantly
trying
to
obey
them,
and
constantly
was
astonished
at
the
unexpected
results
I
arrived
at;
and
now
I
know
that
it
is
a
proof
of
artlessness
to
suppose
that
other
people
will
think
and
feel
and
hope
and
enjoy
what
you
do
and
in
the
same
way
that
you
do.
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