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You ask how it is that I am doing Anchorites at this season of gaiety - in good faith I cannot answer. I have asked the question of myself and been unable to assign a satisfactory reason - with Sam Weller, I asked myself whether I was "labouring under an unrequited attachment to a young woman" but received a prompt answer in the negative. I then demanded of Monsieur Conscience whether I grudged the expenses - no that was not it - for as I had determined
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