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 the decided want of some motive for action, some Powerful object of animation for him, observed with considerable pleasure.—Such was the influence of Youth & Bloom that he began even to make a sort of apology for having a Fire. "We shd not have one at home, said he, but the Sea air is always damp. I am not afraid of any thing so much as Damp.—" "I am so fortunate, said C. as never to know whether the air is damp or dry. It has always some property that is wholesome & invigorating to me.—" "I like the Air too, as well as any body can; replied Arthur, I am very fond of standing at an open Window when there is no Wind—but unluckily a Damp air does not like me.—It gives me the Rheumatism.—You are not rheumatic I suppose?—" "Not at all." "That's a great blessing.—But Rh