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before us have experienced. There is appreciably less 

 light every day ; soon there will be none ; but the good 

 spirits do not wane with the light. It seems to me 

 that we are more uniformly cheerful than we have ever 



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been. What the reason of this is I cannot tell ; perhaps 

 just custom. But certainly, too, we are well off — in 

 clover, as the saying is. We are drifting gently, but it 

 is to be hoped surely, on through the dark unknown 



