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Excerpt from The Adventures of Philip, Vol. 2 of 2: On His Map Through the World Showing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him and Who Passed Him by to Which Is Now Prefixed a Shabby Genteel Story
The truth is that, if he had had a daily paper, and ten times as much work as fell to his lot, Mr. Philip would have found means of pursuing his inclination, as he ever through life has done. The being whom a young man wishes to see, he sees. What business is superior to that of seeing her 'tis a little Hellespontine matter keeps Leander from his Hero He would die rather than not see her. Had he swum out of that difficulty on that stormy night, and carried on a few months later, it might have been, Beloved! My cold and rheumatism are so severe that the doctor says I must not think of cold bathing at night; or Dearest! We have a party at tea, and you mustn't expect your ever fond Lambda to-night, and so forth, and so forth. But in the heat of his passion water could not stay him; tempests could not frighten him; and in one of them he went down, while poor Hero's lamp was twinkling and spending its best ?ame in vain. So Philip came from Sestos to Abydos daily - across one of the bridges, and paying a halfpenny toll very likely - and, late or early, poor little Charlotte's virgin lamps were lighted in her eyes, and watching for him.
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