Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man (Paperback)

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• Publisher: General Books
• Number of Pages: 180
• ISBN: 0217204791
• WAPI (Tower ID): 114008546
• Release Date: August 1, 2009
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. June.?I am awake. I am?I am. There I have wept. 7 who have been the fiercest in anger, the haughtiest in principle, the merriest or the boldest in all adventures, have wept child-like tears, and sobbed bitterly, and wished my heart would break while I thought it was breaking. It is an incomprehensible creation, this human soul. I am happier now here, in this small stone cell, with only yonder single stream of light falling from that narrow aperture, suffering the realization of my worst forebodings?I am less miserable than I have been for months, months before. The suspense is ended. I had rather be broken on the wheel at once than live in that suspense; beside, these tears have relieved me. Yet even now my mind is thronged with images?the court-room, the vast heaving crowd, the faces all gazing, the hum and murmur of multitudes, the voices of the contending parties, the judge, the hushed silence, the condemnation, the strange eyes fastened on me?my brain teems with them all yet, with dreadful vividness and reality. I cannot close my eyes against them. I cannot drive them from my imagination. Sleep itself affords me no cessation, for they pass all with exaggerated importance into my dreams, and so haunt me. Wonderful images of the outward world, that world which I am never to see again. Never?never. June.?Two nights have passed since I wrote the above. I have been too wretched; my reflections have been too excruciating to admit of writing. Sometimes I have paced up and down my cage. I must have exercise or I die, so I walked and leaped and stamped, to put my blood in motion. Then I laid down for hours, and thought. My past life has been all in review before me. I have slept, too, and dreamed?not of the faces ?oh no a sweet, sweet vision of early ...

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