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CHAPTER 1
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Susan, like me, only remembers affairs personal.

It is sufficiently odd this [difference] in subjects remembered.

Catherine says she does not remember the impression made upon her by external things, as scenery, but for things which she reads she has an excellent memory, i.e., for ideas.

Now her sympathy being ideal, it is part of her character, and shows how easily her kind of memory was stamped, a vivid thought is repeated, a vivid impression forgotten.
I remember obscurely the illumination after the battle of Waterloo, and the Militia exercising about that period, in the field opposite our house.
1817.
At 8 1/2 years old I went to Mr.Case's School.

(Chapter I/3.


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