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I will set down, if only to get rid of them, a few incidents of this day.
Trivial they are -- ludicrously so -- to any one but me: yet they have left me sitting with my head in my hands, stupid and idle, starting, each hour, at the boom of the bell we took at Sebastopol -- starting and shivering like a nervous child.