Note 8 — Chapter II · SCHOOL-DAYS AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS
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The training I received from my earliest infancy is perhaps what formed my habits, just as a cask keeps the odor of its first contents. I recall clearly my first gloomy nights, passed on the azotea8 of our house. They seem as yesterday! They were nights filled with the poetry of sadness and seem near now because at present my days are so sad.