"How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long - the care of cares - the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven - and straight you find a new stratum there."

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Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2012). “Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.542, tredition

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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