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Very soon after supper we came away and had a charming row across the harbour to our snug quarters on board the 'Sunbeam. These sudden bursts of dissipation on shore are a delightful change after days and weeks at sea. Wednesday, May 9th. I was up soon after sunrise and admired this often-abused creek as much as I always do.
The often-used and often-abused phrase of a commonwealth composed of millionaires and beggars applies perhaps nowhere so completely as to the Rome of the last age of the republic; and nowhere perhaps has the essential maxim of the slave-state that the rich man who lives by the exertions of his slaves is necessarily respectable, and the poor man who lives by the labour of his hands is necessarily vulgar been recognized with so terrible a precision as the undoubted principle underlying all public and private intercourse.
I was mending my pen with a stout, ivory-handled desk-knife. The temptation came upon me, with hideous force, to plunge the knife into his head, and obtain the great object I so long had desired. In this fearful moment I even reasoned if I dare use the often-abused term that the wound would be small, and hidden by the hair, so that no man could ever know, far less blame me for the act.
The often-used and often-abused phrase of a commonwealth composed of millionaires and beggars applies perhaps nowhere so completely as to the Rome of the last age of the republic; and nowhere perhaps has the essential maxim of the slave-state that the rich man who lives by the exertions of his slaves is necessarily respectable, and the poor man who lives by the labour of his hands is necessarily vulgar been recognized with so terrible a precision as the undoubted principle underlying all public and private intercourse.
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