Autumn Leaves
by Various
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...especially in a night both dark and stormy, Ifeel myself one of the most wretched beings in existence. Imagine avessel lost in the wide ocean, and without a compass, and you willhave some faint idea of my perplexity, discouragement, and lonelinessat such a time. I have a strange propensity for shooting off into thegutter, or for shouldering the fences, under the impression that I ampursuing a straight course. I go quite out of my way to trip overchance stones, or to pick out choice bits of slippery ice. I splashrecklessly through deep puddles, stumble over unfortunate scrapers, walk unexpectedly into open cellars, and lay my length upon wet stonedoorsteps. I start back at visions of posts looming up in thedarkness, and whitewashed fences and trees, all of which would bequite unlikely to be standing in the middle of the sidewalk, and whichdisappear at the first reasonable thought. I run into harmlesspassengers as if I would knock the breath of life out of them, andtangle our umbrellas...
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