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Excerpt: "I always come back to Paris or to London as to a rich feast after abstinence. There are the reserves of perfect health to draw upon for its enjoyment; and I enjoy it while the reserves last. But, on the first sign of their depletion, I return to my lentils and spring water, which can stand my happiness in quite as good stead as young partridges and Montrachet. So the New Zealand shepherd, come once in a while to town, dissipates in a week of glorious debauch the accumulated earnings of a year or so spent in the comfortable solitudes. I don't blame him: on the contrary. What is the sense of storing up health and vigour for no other purpose than, like a miser, to hoard them? I use my physical energy to serve every ounce of me, brain, nerves and organs. A man in health is a man in happiness, whether he be dining at Voisin's, or on ripe figs on the hot rocks of les Baux. And I am a man in health; thank my good stars for that. Of all the great cities, I have sojourned in Paris more than in any other. I have not, like Byron, shaken the dust of my native land off my shoes; but I came so early abroad, that English ways have grown foreign to me. I did not in fact ever fit into their social scheme, though somewhere in my heart a respect survives for it. But the little island is too small for me; or I am too big for it. There is not my peer there in the art of modelling; not a piece of native sculpture that I should like to acknowledge for my own."
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length9 hrs 6 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I
13CHAPTER XIII
2CHAPTER II
14CHAPTER XIV
3CHAPTER III
15CHAPTER XV
4CHAPTER IV
16CHAPTER XVI
5CHAPTER V
17CHAPTER XVII
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6CHAPTER VI
18CHAPTER XVIII
7CHAPTER VII
19CHAPTER XIX
8CHAPTER VIII
20CHAPTER XX
9CHAPTER IX
21CHAPTER XXI
10CHAPTER X
22CHAPTER XXII
11CHAPTER XI
23CHAPTER XXIII
12CHAPTER XII
24CHAPTER XXIV
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