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'Dark is the world to thee? Thyself art the reason why. ' TENNYSON.
Convalescence is often accompanied by a depression of spirits rarely experienced during the illness itself. A weak nature seeks for a cause for this depression in its surroundings, and when it finds one, as it invariably does, it hugs it. These causes, thanks to the assiduity of one whom we are given to understand has seen better days, are seldom far to seek; and it requires a very strong will to hold fast the conviction that these paroxysms of depression arise from physical weakness, and not from some secret woe. Sibyl had not a very strong will. After the first novelty of convalescence was past, and she had been installed in her sitting-room in a cascade of lace and ribbons, which her dressmaker called a _saut du lit_, and after Mr. Loftus had gravitated back towards the library on the ground-floor and his article for the _Millennium_, Sibyl began to experience that vague weariness and distaste of life which all know who know ill health.