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No, but there was here, and this is the reason I speak of it, the trade-mark of that literary living-by-the wits which had taken entire possession of Henry Murger, against which he had struggled in vain all his life long, and which at last crushed him in its feverish grasp.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864