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The Story of Fifine, EPUB eBook

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Excerpt: "I always come back to Paris or to London as to a rich feast after abstinence.

There are the reserves of perfect health to draw upon for its enjoyment; and I enjoy it while the reserves last.

But, on the first sign of their depletion, I return to my lentils and spring water, which can stand my happiness in quite as good stead as young partridges and Montrachet.

So the New Zealand shepherd, come once in a while to town, dissipates in a week of glorious debauch the accumulated earnings of a year or so spent in the comfortable solitudes.

I don't blame him: on the contrary. What is the sense of storing up health and vigour for no other purpose than, like a miser, to hoard them?

I use my physical energy to serve every ounce of me, brain, nerves and organs.

A man in health is a man in happiness, whether he be dining at Voisin's, or on ripe figs on the hot rocks of les Baux. And I am a man in health; thank my good stars for that.

Of all the great cities, I have sojourned in Paris more than in any other.

I have not, like Byron, shaken the dust of my native land off my shoes; but I came so early abroad, that English ways have grown foreign to me.

I did not in fact ever fit into their social scheme, though somewhere in my heart a respect survives for it.

But the little island is too small for me; or I am too big for it.

There is not my peer there in the art of modelling; not a piece of native sculpture that I should like to acknowledge for my own."

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