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All indoors, with _unknownness_! — Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
For a little while he would seem to keep them company, but soon they would all drop away, the minister, his accustomed towns-people, Robert Hagburn, Rose, Sibyl Dacy, -- all leaving him in blessed unknownness to adopt new temporary relations, and take a new course. — Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life
Cupples�-whether the death of Kate, or his own illness, or the reaction of shame after his sojourn in the tents of wickedness, had opened dark visions of the world of reality lying in awful _unknownness_ around the life he seemed to know, I cannot tell, - �cold isolations would suddenly seize upon him, wherein he would ask himself�-that oracular cave in which one hears a thousand questions before one reply� - "What is the use of it all�-this study and labour?" — Alec Forbes of Howglen