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My father, as appears from many of his papers, was very subject to this passion, before he married but from a little subacid kind of drollish impatience in his nature, whenever it befell him, he would never submit to it like a christian; but would pish, and huff, and bounce, and kick, and play the Devil, and write the bitterest Philippicks against the eye that ever man wrote there is one in verse upon somebody's eye or other, that for two or three nights together, had put him by his rest; which in his first transport of resentment against it, he begins thus: 'A Devil 'tis and mischief such doth work As never yet did Pagan, Jew, or Turk.
"Never again!" some latent determination leaped to mock him. And there had been some sort of an argument with a drollish old man concerning all homely girls in general and one very specially homely little girl in particular. And the very specially homely little girl in particular had turned out to be the old man's daughter! "Never again!" his original impulse hastened to reassure him.
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