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I laboured hard at my book, without allowing it to interfere1 with the punctual discharge of my newspaper duties; and it came out and was very successful. I was not stunned2 by the praise which sounded in my ears, notwithstanding that I was keenly alive to it, and thought better of my own performance, I have little doubt, than anybody else did. It has always been in my observation of human nature, that a man who has any good reason to believe in himself never flourishes himself before the faces of other people in order that they may believe in him. For this reason, I retained my modesty4 in very self-respect; and the more praise I got, the more I tried to deserve.
It is not my purpose, in this record, though in all other essentials it is my written memory, to pursue the history of my own fictions. They express themselves, and I leave them to themselves. When I refer to them, incidentally, it is only as a part of my progress.
Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that nature and accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation5 with confidence. Without such assurance I should certainly have left it alone, and bestowed6 my energy on some other endeavour. I should have tried to find out what nature and accident really had made me, and to be that, and nothing else. I had been writing, in the newspaper and elsewhere, so prosperously, that when my new success was achieved, I considered myself reasonably entitled to escape from the dreary7 debates. One joyful8 night, therefore, I noted9 down the music of the parliamentary bagpipes10 for the last time, and I have never heard it since; though I still recognize the old drone in the newspapers, without any substantial variation (except, perhaps, that there is more of it), all the livelong session.

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casually
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scraps
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crackers
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disturbance
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porcupine
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heartily
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prudent
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joyfully
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assent
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inquiry
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