It is as if some haunting presence were removed from me.

Perhaps.

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My surmise was not finished, could not be, for I caught sight in the mirror of the red mark upon my forehead, and I knew that I was still unclean.
DR.SEWARD'S DIARY.
5 October .-- We all arose early, and I think that sleep did much for each and all of us.

When we met at early breakfast there was more general cheerfulness than any of us had ever expected to experience again.
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature.
Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
More than once as we sat around the table, my eyes opened in wonder whether the whole of the past days had not been a dream.