The Nuptial Flight 
far too much to hate the rich man. But I 
fancy my good corn-thrower there could not 
understand my tending him without any 
profit to myself. He was satisfied that 
there must be some underhand scheme, and 
he declined to be my dupe. More than one 
before him, richer or poorer, has acted in 
similar fashion, if not worse. It did not 
occur to him that he was lying when he 
spread those inventions abroad; he merely 
obeyed a confused command of the morality 
he saw about him. He yielded uncon- 
sciously, against his will, as it were, to the 
all-powerful desire of the general malev- 
olence. . . . But why complete a picture 
with which all are familiar who have spent 
some years in the country? Here we have 
the second semblance, that some will call 
the real truth. It is the truth of practical 
life. It undoubtedly is based on the most 
precise, the only facts that one can observe 
and test. 
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**Let us sit on these sheaves,” he con- 
tinued, “and look again. Let us reject not 
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