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THINGS IN GENERAL. 293
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in the Land soup of Gossi , p , ! and I call you unconscious , because the visited worst part by our of this own too Doubles vital . phantasmagoria Occasionall awful y , it is is that true , we we are meet but seldom it them far
face to face , and are terrified by the apparition ; more _frequently happens that it goes about behind your back , doing and saying the most atrocious things- —covering st in you with shame it is
and . ridicule What among absurdities your does neig it hbours not , who ! What persi eccentricities believing does you it not commit ! Sometimes it soars say into crime , of which the blame
what must is Would laid they needs on to your heaven are pay at shoulders the that instead penalty they , at of others did skulking of face a it blush stoops us about boldl ! to behind y Our follies , and U for g our let ly which Doubles us backs know you in !
, me the At b Land y this telling of point Gossi me in of p my !" some discourse particularl , my y Intelli reprehensible gent Friend actions interrupted lately
committed hy my own Double , and which had met with universal censure . 66 But while we see and know comparatively little of our own Ugly
Doubles , it is quite wonderful how much we know of our neighbours' . We cannot to a social party without meeting at least a score
go of of U the gly room Doubles bring of ing the down absent the . They last n float ews and from buzz their in country all corners of
shadows , and , almost persuading you that they are of flesh and blood . So that we know , as it were , two people in each of our
and acquai the ntance mystical ; the reflection real indivi of dual their whom identity we projected see with our from sob the er Land eyes ,
of of Gossi the human p , and thoug being h you would mig throw ht think the that vague the clear form vivid of the outlines Ugly
Double into confusion , yet it is not so ; we know the one , yet we suffer ourselves to believe in the otherand not only among those
, to whom we are personal strangers , are we injured by the spectre of ourselves .
" And what is truly wonderful is , that not people only , but also is places a double are subjected London and to this a double terrible Paris law in of that another mystic realm land . , and There the
sublimity of the one and the brightness of the other are equally defaced and distorted . Our Doubles go about doing evil deeds in
a Regent hear that Street , and one a of Hue them de has Eivoli been of their doing own any , thing and whenever
particuyou larly mischievous any , be sure that the locality also is defined , and that a particular house in a particular street , and a particular hour , are
reg Here istered my as Intel belong ligent ing to Friend that particular interrupted deed me . " by asking if I was
Things In General. 293
THINGS IN _GENERAL . 293
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/5/
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