Excerpt from George Eliot: A Paper, With Illustrative Selections, Read Before the Chit-Chat Club, 9th, Francisco, July 9th, Chit-Chat
Have you never, gentlemen, as the Saturday pre ceding the second Monday of the month found you without a line of your essay penned or penciled, nay, without even so much as a plot for your story - have you never, I venture to ask, felt, on that momentous day, a sentiment of inward debasement and dread, Of degraded insufficiency for the uses and purposes Of this mortal, life?
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