The Nuptial Flight 



they are poor, they hate their masters 

 with a boiling 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 hfting their 

 thoughts or widening 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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