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New Grub Street

CHAPTER XV
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They don't belong to the same world as we poor wretches.

They see everything in a different light; they have powers which would seem supernatural if we were suddenly endowed with them.' 'Of course,' assented his companion with a sigh.
'Just fancy, if one got up in the morning with the thought that no reasonable desire that occurred to one throughout the day need remain ungratified! And that it would be the same, any day and every day, to the end of one's life! Look at those houses; every detail, within and without, luxurious.

To have such a home as that!' 'And they are empty creatures who live there.' 'They do live, Amy, at all events.

Whatever may be their faculties, they all have free scope.

I have often stood staring at houses like these until I couldn't believe that the people owning them were mere human beings like myself.


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