There are some favorite old characters, notably Aubrey's steward, Preserved Killick : " ill-faced, ill-tempered, meagre, atrabilious, shrewish " and thoroughly amusing.
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Some decades letter grew up another writer in the same street-and his childhood memories sound very similarly atrabilious like the narration by Du Maurier : " When I stroll around Passy I feel like wandering inside myself and always I am faced with my own childhood ."