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SYMPTOMATIC

myself happy, and a few other people happy too, to do a few little duties decently, and that is enough for me. I don't look too deeply into things and I don't look too widely about things. A few old simple ideals——

"H'm.

"Chatteris is a dreamer, with an impossible, extravagant discontent. What does he dream of?. . . Three parts he is a dreamer and the fourth part—spoiled child.

"Dreamer. . .

"Other dreams. . .

"What other dreams could she mean?"

My cousin fell into profound musings. Then he started, looked about him, saw the time by his Rathbone clock, got up suddenly and went to bed.

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