ABSENTEES

Soon become detached from all habitual employments and duties; the

salutary feeling of home is lost; early friendships are dissevered, and

life becomes a vague and restless state, freed, it may seem, from many

ties, but yet more destitute of the better and purer pleasures of

existence.

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