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Objectless

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Ob´ject`less
a.1.Having no object; purposeless.

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But in the morning, when I woke without that cheering hope that had been my secret comfort and support so long, and all this day, when I have wandered about restless and objectless, shunning my husband, shrinking even from my child, knowing that I am unfit to be his teacher or companion, hoping nothing for his future life, and fervently wishing he had never been born, - I felt the full extent of my calamity, and I feel it now.
Vague and objectless anxiety in the present, and in the future a continual sacrifice leading to nothing--that was all that lay before him.
Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered, how objectless was my life, and how little there was to engage my attention.
 
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