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Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge

CHAPTER VIII
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"_January_ 8 .-- Slept badly; toward morning dreamed that I was walking with two or three friends, and accompanied by a tall man whom I did not know, wrapped in a cloak, through a very dark wood.

I seemed to be in a very heavy mood.

We came upon a building brightly lighted, and, entering, found a hall with many people dining.

There was much wine and talk, and a great deal of laughing and merriment.
We appeared to be invisible.
"I began to moralize aloud.

I said, 'Yes, and this is the way in which lives pass: a little laughter and a few jests and a song or two; forgetful, all the time, that the lights must be extinguished and the wine spilled, and that night laps them round,'-- catching, as I said this, a glimpse of the dark trees swaying outside.
"But the man in the cloak took me up.


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