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 quiz—yet he resembled no one else I had ever seen before; his general bearing intimated complete, sovereign satisfaction with himself, yet, at times, an indescribable shade passed like an eclipse over his countenance, and seemed to me like the sign of a sudden and strong inward doubt of himself, his words and actions—an energetic discontent at his life or his social position, his future prospects or his mental attainments—I know not which; perhaps after all it might only be a bilious caprice.