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I AM the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health-with many other advantages usually valued by those having them and coveted by those who have them not-I sometimes think that
I should be less unhappy if they had been denied me, for then the contrast between my outer and my inner life would not be continually demanding a painful attention. In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the somber secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels.