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" " I know of but one misfortune," answered Gervayse Hastings, quietly, " and that is my own." " Your own ! " rgoined the philanthropist. " And looking back on your serene and pro- 85 MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE sperous life, how can you claim to be the sole unfortunate of the human race ? " " You will not understand it," replied Ger- vayse Hastings, feebly, and with a singular inefficiency of pronunciation, and sometimes put- ting one word for another. " None have un- derstood it — not even those... who experience the like. It is a chilliness — a want of earnest- ness — a feeling as if what should be my heart were a thing of vapor — a haunting percep- tion of unreality ! Thus seeming to possess all that other men have — all that men aim at — I have really possessed nothing, neither joy nor griefs. All things, all persons — as was truly said to me at this table long and long ago — have been like shadows flickering on the wall. It was so with my wife and children — with those who seemed my friends : it is so with yourselves, whom I see now before me.
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