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And he said he found it very difficult to find a place to stay,
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to find a boarding house in Philadelphia,
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because people just refused to take him in.
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"So many refused as made", As he put it,
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"it fearful whether, like Cain,
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I had not a discouraging mark upon me,
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or a strong feature of toryism"--
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like somehow people are looking at me
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and saying I look like a Tory?
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Like, how was it that they weren't giving me any place to stay?
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So that's one person's diary,
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but again it shows you