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What private solicitude could rear itself against the deluge of the Year One of Liberty--the deluge rising from below, not falling from above, and with the windows of Heaven shut, not opened!
He was impatient of their voices and could not keep his feet at rest.
With an air of nonchalance which, under the circumstances, seemed to me to border upon affectation, he lounged up and down the pavement, and gazed vacantly at the ground, the sky, the opposite houses and the line of railings.
Oh, it's a wonderful thing to be alive and be happy. _[A bell is heard in the hall.]
