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"Most beautiful, sir. I have sometimes had a fancy that I would
like to sit up, for once, only to try how it looks to an erect head.
But what a foolish fancy that would be to encourage! It cannot look
more lovely to any one than it does to me."
Her eyes were turned to it, as she spoke, with most delighted
admiration and enjoyment. There was not a trace in it of any sense
of deprivation.
"And those threads of railway, with their puffs of smoke and steam
changing places so fast, make it so lively for me," she went on. "I
think of the number of people who can go where they wish, on their
business, or their pleasure; I remember that the puffs make signs to
me that they are actually going while I look; and that enlivens the
prospect with abundance of company, if I want company. There is the
great Junction, too. I don't see it under the foot of the hill, but
I can very often hear it, and I always know it is there. It seems
to join me, in a way, to I don't know how many places and things
that I shall never see."
With an abashed kind of idea that it might have already joined
himself to something he had never seen, he said constrainedly:
"Just so."
"And so you see, sir," pursued Phoebe, "I am not the invalid you
thought me, and I am very well off indeed."
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