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CHAPTER XXIII
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Immediately after the republication of her sisters' book she went to
Miss Martineau's.
"I can write to you now, dear E——, for I am away from home) and relieved, temporarily, at least, by change of air and scene, from the heavy burden of depression which, I confess, has for nearly three months been sinking me to the earth. I never shall forget last autumn! Some days and nights have been cruel; but now, having once told you this, I need say no more on the subject. My loathing1 of solitude2 grew extreme; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant3. I am better now. I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within and without; arranged at; all points with admirable neatness and comfort. Her visitors enjoy the most perfect liberty; what she claims for herself she allows them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast alone (she is up at five, takes a cold bath, and a walk by starlight, and has finished breakfast and got to her work by seven o'clock). I pass the morning in the drawing-room—she, in her study. At two o'clock we meet—work, talk, and walk together till five, her dinner-hour, spend the evening together, when she converses4 fluently and abundantly, and with the most complete frankness. I go to my own room soon after ten,—she sits up writing letters till twelve. She appears exhaustless in strength and spirits, and indefatigable5 in the faculty6 of labour. She is a great and a good woman; of course not without peculiarities7, but I have seen none as yet that annoy me. She is both hard and warm-hearted, abrupt9 and affectionate, liberal and despotic. I believe she is not at all conscious of her own absolutism. When I tell her of it, she denies the charge warmly; then I laugh at her. I believe she almost rules Ambleside. Some of the
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loathing
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converses
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gratitude
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anticipations
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placidity
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originality
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sage
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perversity
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torpid
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materialist
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immortality
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harassing
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atheism
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materialism
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assortment
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