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He looked at me in some pretended surprise, and said, ‘It must have been at a very early period in our acquaintance.’
This ‘give and take’ was all in great good humor, and Mr. Clough was a delightful guest in all societies.
Sorry indeed were we when, having become quite at home among us, he returned to England, there to marry and abide.
I remember that he told me of one winter which he had passed at his university without fire in his quarters.
When I heard of his illness and untimely death, it occurred to me that the seeds of the fatal disease might have been sown during that season of privation.
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