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Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.

Independently of the rigours of attendance, I have ever been haunted with a sense (perhaps a mere caprice) of incapacity for business.

The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.

From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.

It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges, whom I have left behind in the world, carking and caring; like horses in a mill, drudging on in the same eternal round--and what is it all for?

The partners, and the clerks, with whom I had for so many years, and for so many hours in each day of the year, been closely associated--being suddenly removed from them--they seemed as dead to me.

Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month, reader; I can offer you only sick men's dreams.

Competence to age is supplementary youth; a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had.

A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.