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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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"Poverty,"
said
Johnson
again,
"is
so
great
an
evil,
and
pregnant
with
so
much
temptation,
so
much
misery,
that
I
cannot
but
earnestly
enjoin
you
to
avoid
it."
For
my
own
part,
I
needed
no
injunction
to
that
effort
of
avoidance.
Many
a
London
garret
knows
how
I
struggled
with
the
unwelcome
chamber-fellow.
I
marvel
she
did
not
abide
with
me
to
the
end;
it
is
a
sort
of
inconsequence
in
Nature,
and
sometimes
makes
me
vaguely
uneasy
through
nights
of
broken
sleep.
VI.
How
many
more
springs
can
I
hope
to
see?
A
sanguine
temper
would
say
ten
or
twelve;
let
me
dare
to
hope
humbly
for
five
or
six.
That
is
a
great
many.
Five
or
six
spring-times,
welcomed
joyously,
lovingly
watched
from
the
first
celandine
to
the
budding
of
the
rose;
who
shall
dare
to
call
it
a
stinted
boon?
Five
or
six
times
the
miracle
of
earth
reclad,
the
vision
of
splendour
and
loveliness
which
tongue
has
never
yet
described,
set
before
my
gazing.
To
think
of
it
is
to
fear
that
I
ask
too
much.
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