The Nuptial Flight 



they are poor, they hate their masters 

 with a boiHng and pent-up hatred because 

 of the harshness and avarice these last 

 display ; should they in their turn have 

 servants, they profit by their own experi- 

 ence of servitude to reveal a harshness and 

 avarice greater even than that from which 

 they have suffered. I could give you 

 minutest details of the meanness, deceit, 

 injustice, tyranny, and malice that under- 

 lie this picture of ethereal, peaceful toil. 

 Do not imagine that the sight of this mar- 

 vellous sky, of the sea which spreads out 

 yonder behind the church and presents 

 another, more sensitive sky, flowing over 

 the earth like a great mirror of wisdom 

 and consciousness — do not imagine that 

 either sea or sky is capable of lifting their 

 thoughts or v/idening their minds. They 

 have never looked at them. Nothing has 

 power to influence or move them save 

 three or four circumscribed fears, that of 

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