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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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I
think
with
compassion
of
the
unhappy
mortals
for
whom
no
such
sun
will
ever
rise.
I
should
like
to
add
to
the
Litany
a
new
petition:
"For
all
inhabitants
of
great
towns,
and
especially
for
all
such
as
dwell
in
lodgings,
boarding-houses,
flats,
or
any
other
sordid
substitute
for
Home
which
need
or
foolishness
may
have
contrived."
In
vain
I
have
pondered
the
Stoic
virtues.
I
know
that
it
is
folly
to
fret
about
the
spot
of
one's
abode
on
this
little
earth.
All
places
that
the
eye
of
heaven
visits
Are
to
the
wise
man
ports
and
happy
havens.
But
I
have
always
worshipped
wisdom
afar
off.
In
the
sonorous
period
of
the
philosopher,
in
the
golden
measure
of
the
poet,
I
find
it
of
all
things
lovely.
To
its
possession
I
shall
never
attain.
What
will
it
serve
me
to
pretend
a
virtue
of
which
I
am
incapable?
To
me
the
place
and
manner
of
my
abode
is
of
supreme
import;
let
it
be
confessed,
and
there
an
end
of
it.
I
am
no
cosmopolite.
Were
I
to
think
that
I
should
die
away
from
England,
the
thought
would
be
dreadful
to
me.
And
in
England,
this
is
the
dwelling
of
my
choice;
this
is
my
home.
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