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Dec 28

Moonlight night - and skating on the new Reservoir, with the Spicers & Mary Folsom. Drove up with Alice through [[strikethrough]] Un [[/strikethrough]] Molly Corner's pasture. Cold still night, a bonfire on the rocks and the freezing ice booming in the solitude. Back to the "petit cabin" of the Spicers as Alice called it, where we had hot chocolate and as much freedom and pleasure as in the open air.

Dec 31
A skate in Mystic by moonlight with Joe Jenkins. The pallor and all pervading quality - of moonlight is much the same as the white light of a hot noonday sun. The eye seems blinded, and objects

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are reduced to simple light and shade.

Skating is the least fatiguing of all sports. The ecstasy of the motion puts the mind into tranquility -, and if one talks it is without thinking. The emotion one feels is "incolore" but all pervading, like the moonlight.

1893
Jan 7th Game club at Miss Pater's. A very small little party - Alice refused to go. I felt as if I were someone else looking on from [[strikethrough]] outside [[/strikethrough]] outside the window, all the evening.

If I keep on as I am going I shall become so indifferent to human beings that I shall not think it worth while to get up in the morning even for myself -

Had a glow of returning life in the morning at the thought of its being possible