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Then must I plunge again into the crowd, And follow all that peace disdains to seek. -- Byron.
In the quiet of my retreat I remained for eight days -- during which time I never looked once at a newspaper -- imagine how great was my philosophy! On the ninth, I began to think it high time I should hear from Dawton; and finding that I had eaten two rolls for breakfast, and that my untimely wrinkle began to assume a more mitigated appearance, I bethought me once more of the "Beauties of Babylon."