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Chapter II: The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns
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There is something sustaining in the very agitation1 that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus2, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It is in the slow, changed life that follows; in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity3 that counteracts4 its pain; in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary5 routine — it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory6 hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction.
This time of utmost need was come to Maggie, with her short span of thirteen years. To the usual precocity7 of the girl, she added that early experience of struggle, of conflict between the inward impulse and outward fact, which is the lot of every imaginative and passionate8 nature; and the years since she hammered the nails into her wooden Fetish among the worm-eaten shelves of the attic10 had been filled with so eager a life in the triple world of Reality, Books, and Waking Dreams, that Maggie was strangely old for her years in everything except in her entire want of that prudence11 and self-command which were the qualities that made Tom manly12 in the midst of his intellectual boyishness. And now her lot was beginning to have a still, sad monotony, which threw her more than ever on her inward self. Her father was able to attend to business again, his affairs were settled, and he was
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softening
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paralysis
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incubus
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deficit
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verge
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pillory
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retrieve
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linen
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