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And as it goes on, it is all so obvious that I cannot bring myself to follow it—how he went to Eton and was unhappy; went to Cambridge and was in his element; was not elected an Apostle, was muscular; coached his boat; and Christian; but shed his Christianity—with such anguish, Fred Maitlandf once hinted to me, that he thought of suicide, and how then, like Pendennis or any other of the Victorian young men of intellect—he was typical of them—took to writing for the papers, went to America; and was, so far as I can see, the very type, or mould, of so many Cambridge intellectuals—like George Trevelyan, like Charlie Sanger, likeGoldie Dickinson—whom I knew later.†

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
One night I lay awake horrified hearing, as I imagined, an obscene old man gasping and croaking and muttering senile indecencies—it was a cat, I was told afterwards; a cat's anguished love making.†
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We bore the brunt of his anguish.†

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
He looked anguished; yet dogged; all in coal black.†
As I stood there I was conscious of fear; of shame; of something like anguish—a feeling, like so many, out of all proportion to its surface cause.†

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress

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