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Excerpt from Colonel Quaritch, V. C, Vol. 2: A Tale of Country Life
This is a troublesome world enough, but thanks to that mitigating fate which now and again interferes to our advantage, there do come to most of us times and periods of existence which, if they do not quite fulfil all the conditions of ideal happiness, yet go near enough to that end to permit in after days of our imagining that they did so. I say to most of us, but in doing so I allude chie?y to those classes commonly known as the upper, by which is understood those who have enough bread to put into their mouths and.
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