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By this time I hope that I have made a sort of picture of my conditions as they were up to the time that I left school at the age of seventeen.
Solitude and woods and deep lanes and wonder; these were the chief elements of my life. One thing, however, I have so far omitted, that is the matter of books, which I will now consider.