Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire,…

Charles Dickens
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Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...
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