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It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.

Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!

There is also a dog, but he does not understand English,

I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.

I dreamt of bears so vividly that I woke with a furry death hug at my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.

Everything suggests a beyond.

Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.