I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains.
They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment._ I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child__hough equally dependent and friendless__rs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained...
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They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment._ I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child__hough equally dependent and friendless__rs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained...
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