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- 32 The Confessions of S. Augustine.
tickled our hearts, that we were deceiving those who had no idea of what we were about, and vehemently misliked it. Why then was my delight of such sort, that I did it not alone? Was it because none doth readily laugh alone? indeed no one doth so readily; yet laughter sometimes masters men alone and by themselves, when no one else is with them, if any thing very ridiculous presents itself to their senses or mind. Yet I had not done this alone; alone I had never done it. Behold my God, before Thee is the vivid remembrance of my soul; alone I had never committed that theft wherein the thing stolen gave me no pleasure, but only the stealing; nor would the stealing have given me pleasure by myself, nor would I have done it. O friendship too unfriendly! thou incomprehensible deception of the mind, thou greediness to do mischief out of sport and mirth, thou thirst of another’s loss, without lust of my own gain or revenge: but when it is said, “Let’s go, let’s do it,” we are ashamed not to be shameless.
## CHAPTER X.
*With God is true rest, and life undisturbed.*
**W**HO can unloose that most twisted and tangled knot? Foul is it: I hate the thought of it; I hate the sight of it. But Thee I long for, O Righteousness and Innocency, fair and comely to pure eyes, and of a satisfaction unsating. With Thee is true rest and life untroubled. Whoso enters into Thee, “enters into the joy of his Lord” (S. Matt. xxv. 21): and shall not fear, and shall find all good, in Thee, Most Good. I sank away from Thee, and I wandered, O my God, too much astray from Thee my stay, in my youth, and I became to myself a barren land.
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