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હજી પણ 'જન' નામને વાડીલાલ કેમ વળગી રહ્યો છે? દ
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the gloomy, agreeable nooks in which preferen-ces (?) and prejudices (?), youth, origin, the accident of men and books, or even the weariness of travel seemed to confie J us of malice against the seductions of despondency which lie concealad in honours, money, posi tions or cxaltation of senses; grateful even for distress and the vicissitudes of illness, because they always free us from some rule, and its prejudice "; grateful to the God, devil, sheep, and worm in us; inquisitive to a fault, investigators to the point of cruelty, with unhesita ting fingers for the intangible, with teeth and stomachs for the most indigestible, ready for any business that requires sagacity and acute senses, ready for every adventure, owing to an excess of free well; with anterior and posterior souls, into the ultimate intentions of which it is difficult to pry, with foregrounds and backgrounds to the end of which no foot may run; hidden ones under the mantles of light (?), appropriators, although we resemble heirs and spendthrifts, arrangers and collectors from morning till night, misers of our wealth and our full-crammed drawers, economical in learning and forgetting, inventive in scheming; sometimes pedants, sometimes nightowls of work even in full day; yea, if necessary, even scarecrows-and it is necessary today, that ls to say, in as much as we are the born, sworn, jealous friends of solitude, af our own profoundest midnight and midday solitude:-such kind of men are we, we free spirits! And perhaps ye are
