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My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. (1)
I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. (6)
[…] through the instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance [I] had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. (6)
The curtains of my bed were in flames. (10)
When reason returned with the morning – when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch – I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had b...
I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. (6)
