They fled precipitately, some of them with what we may call an exquisite ignominy,-in terror of the treadmill or worse. (Thomas Carlyle)

They fled precipitately, some of them with what we may call an exquisite ignominy,-in terror of the treadmill or worse.

Thomas Carlyle

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