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The house in the city preserved its heavy dulness through all these

transactions, and the invalid within it turned the saht,with its acco monotony, always the same reluctant

return of the sa piece of

clockwork

The wheeled chair had its associated remembrances and reveries, one may

suppose, as every place that ishas

Pictures of demolished streets and altered houses, as they formerly were

when the occupant of the chair was faes of people

as they too used to be, with little or no allowance made for the lapse

of time since they were seen; of these, there loomy days To stop the clock of busy existence at the

hour ere personally sequestered from it, to suppose ht to a stand-still, to be unable

to er standard than

the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the

infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all

recluses

What scenes and actors the stern woman most reviewed, as she sat

from season to season in her one dark room, none knew but herself Mr