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Foolishness is a great deal more living and healthy than our straining and striving after rational life . '' My uncle talked a great deal , so much that he bored us ; I sat on a box listening to him and dropping to sleep . It distressed me that he did not once all the evening pay attention to me . He left the lodge at two o'clock , when , overcome with drowsiness , I was sound asleep . From that time forth my uncle took to coming to the lodge every evening . He sang with us , had supper with us , and always stayed on till two o'clock in the morning , chatting incessantly , always about the same subject . His evening and night work was given up , and by the end of June , when the privy councillor had learned to eat mother 's turkey and _ compote _ , his work by day was abandoned too .