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 lifting 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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