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in the way of light reading it would help 

 me through my imprisonment in the 

 house, for taking walking exercise was 

 still out of the question. The roads at 

 Landour are very steep, so that whichever 

 way you turn your steps it is either an 

 ascent or a descent most trying to an 

 invalid. While sitting in front of the fire, 

 my reflections at last assumed a more 

 cheerful form than at first, and I reasoned 

 with myself on the folly of being low- 

 spirited and depressed ; and assured my- 

 self that if I wished to be strong and 

 healthy, the way to become so was to 

 keep up my spirits and make the best of 

 everything, putting the most favourable 

 construction upon all that happened to 

 me; by this means I should always be 

 able to swim on the surface, instead of 

 grovelling at the bottom in all the slime 



