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SELF-REPROACH—FAMILY DISCOMFORT—OUT ON THE MARSH1—VICTORY.
If I could have locked myself up anywhere else I should have preferred it. I would have justified2 my own part in the present family quarrel to Aunt Isobel herself, and yet I would rather not have been alone just now with the text I had made and pinned up, and with my new picture. However, there was nowhere else to go to.
A restless way I have of pacing up and down when I am in a rage, has often reminded me of the habits of the more ferocious3 of the wild beasts in the Zoological Gardens, and has not lessened5 my convictions on the subject of the family temper. For a few prowls up and down my den4 I managed to occupy my thoughts with fuming6 against Philip's behaviour, but as the first flush of anger began to cool, there was no keeping out of my head the painful reflections which the sight of my text, my picture, and my books [211]suggested—the miserable7 contrast between my good resolves and the result.
"It only shows," I muttered to myself, in a voice about as amiable8 as the growlings of a panther, "it only shows that it is quite hopeless. We're an ill-tempered family—a hopelessly ill-tempered family; and to try to cure us is like patching the lungs of a consumptive family, I don't even wish that I could forgive Philip. He doesn't deserve it."
And then as I nursed the cut on my elbow, and recalled the long hours of work at the properties, the damaged scene, the rifling of the green-room, and Philip's desertion with the Dragon, his probable industry for Mr. Clinton's theatricals9
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emblem
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inscription
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highland
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leopard
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tyrants
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blessings
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harp
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choir
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superstitious
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judgment
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plume
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concession
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prospect
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tightening
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amazement
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aggravating
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portico
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sobbed
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obstinacy
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steadily
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loomed
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justifiable
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disposition
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cinders
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generosity
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absurdity
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lashing
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commendable
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crunching
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