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He abandoned his books, pressed his brow and went to the dining room, saying to himself that, among all the volumes he had just arranged, the works of Barbey d'Aurevilly were the only ones whose ideas and style offered the gaminess he so loved to savor in the Latin and decadent, monastic writers of past ages. As the season advanced, the weather, far from improving, grew worse.
Jane awaited me in the dining-room with viands and an anxious brow, and would scarcely let me appease the cravings of exhausted nature. She sent the servant out, and ministered to my wants herself. "Brother, you look downcast. Have you returned with empty hands?" "I have brought some of the finest trout you ever saw not in mere size perhaps, but in flavor, colors, and gaminess.
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