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A Club of One, Passages from the Note-Book of a Man Who Might Have Been Sociable; With Marginal Summary by the Editor - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... Dante calls it), and licking his chaps like a disgusting great boar. Once I attended a wedding of December and May. The tailor December had padded the garments of the bride-Mv' groom, and the jeweler had hung his diamonds on the bride. The smile of senility brightened the countenance of the one with a stagy light, while all the blood of the heart of the other seemed to be concentrated in her shame-stricken face. What wonder that Hymen blushed, that satyrs grinned, that Virtue felt herself outraged and Religion insulted, when Sin, in priestly robe, with priestly unction, in awful irony, Aw/ui pronounced the accursed blessing? The mn' occasion was a Vanity Fair indeed, at which a Death's head on a Venus figure was everywhere present;--at the banquet sitting; peering over the shoulders of beauty; drinking its drink from the goblet of Satan;--the latter an invisible and unexpected guest, but the happiest, by all odds, vuM,fm of the party. I went home a sadder man,--with the distressing certainty, that such scenes must continue to be acted before high Heaven, and increase, with the growth of what all men call civilization. For two or three days I have suffered sfZy"' supremely, and the utmost I could do was to take care of myself. So long a sufferer, I have learned to do that. I should have been dead long ago if I had trusted other people to look after me. Some very important matter they would have regarded as a very little thing, and I should be no more. So, long since, I perceived the importance of attentive, perpetual observation and care A little book of myself. I have a little book of duties, of dutus. which I have religiously kept for years, in which is set down mathematically every little and great thing pertaining to my health--when to do certain thing...
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