nates. They are to be met with everywhere,
standing on curbs and corners, and staring into
vacancy. Watch one of them. He will stand there,
motionless, for hours, and when you go away you
will leave him still staring into vacancy. It is most
absorbing. He has no money for beer, and his lair

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is only for sleeping purposes, so what else remains
for him to do ? He has already solved the myste
ries of girl s love, and wife s love, and child s love,
and found them delusions and shams, vain and fleet
ing as dewdrops, quick-vanishing before the ferocious
facts of life.

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