Very Exciting and Rather Terrible

'I feel strangely tired, Rat,' said the Mole, leaning wearily over his oars as the boat drifted. 'It's being up all night, you'll perhaps; but that's nothing. We do as much half the nights of the week, at this time of year. No; I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.'

'Or something very surprising and splendid and beautiful,' murmured the Rat, leaning back and closing his eyes. 'I feel just as you do, Mole; lucky we've got the stream with us, to take us home. Isn't it jolly to feel the sun again, soaking into one's bones! And hark to the wind playing in the reeds!'

-The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

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