Before answering, the pr?tor turned his eyes upon the questioner with a quizzical glance, then replied,—“What you have observed is, from present appearances, true, and we learned that the pr?tor Indegatus made the selection in accordance with the judgment23 your discernment has expressed. But, in referring the reasons of his choice to the Dosch Giganteo, he reversed his decision, sustaining his judgment by urging the special adaptation of the supposed objections for counteracting25 the then prevalent disposition27 of the Heraclean women for invidious gossip, and their initiation28 into a staid, thoughtful mood, necessary for overcoming their hereditary29 inclinations30 for tongue talk. As I perceive that the question of Mr. Welson echoes your common curiosity to learn the influence of the choice, I will notice some of the effects in their course of development. Yesterday you remarked, while upon the temple walls of the boys’ enclosure, that the whirr of the falling water scarcely interfered31 with conversation, after you became accustomed to its counter resonance32 upon your voices, while here we are obliged to seek the screen of a turret33, and then speak and hear with difficulty; not so much from the overwhelming loudness, as the confused blending of sound, that renders articulate modulation34 tiresome35. Although partially36 overcome when the ear becomes accustomed to the impression, still 348the monotonous37 replication of variations in kind, without order in sequence, is too close, as the Dosch informs me, in its resemblance to the unmeaning plash of words, to distinguish in utterance39 those void of affectionate sympathy. This toning influence imposes a thoughtful silence upon those inclined to speak in freedom from the sympathetic direction of thought devisement, encouraging a mood for the study of individuality. The Dosch advises me that a prattling40 novice41, from your race, would soon discover that expressionless words became involved in the wish-a-washy plash and whirr of the falling waters; and with repetition would feel the reflection, in burlesque42 effect, for the enlightenment of her understanding, when fully3 sensible of the vague implication, and of necessity would be obliged to limit her speech to the honest expression of affectionate emotions. This, he says, has rendered the cataracts43 of your country unpopular with your fashionable ladies, after the sight-seeing impression has been gratified; still springs being preferred as a place of fashionable sojourn45, as they neither confuse or rival in noisy revel46 their tongues. In proof of what I wish to convey to your understanding, you will perceive that upon useful subjects of enlightenment, the Manatitlan voice is readily heard by our accustomed ears. But when I pronounce fashionable dress, society, public opinion, theatre, and like synonyms47 of multitudinous expression, the sound becomes confused with the noisy repetitions of the water, requiring labored48 and labiate vocalization to make you comprehend their import. Indeed, I perceive that your ears are at as great a loss to recognize the familiar words, as I am to judge of their meaning from the mimicry49 of sound. But how quickly your perceptive50 attention is attracted by the sympathetic tones of my voice when attuned51 in approximation to an affectionate wish! Our scholastic52 ninietas never turn a deaf ear, or a 349void eye from an expression in word or emotion prompted by kindly53 affection, during the heaviest roar of the winter’s flood. But folly54 invested with the blatant55 mechanism56 of Demosthenic oratory57, or the rhyming jointure of poetical58 numbers, could not be distinguished59 in the faintest weish of a season of drouth. You will perceive from these hints that the elements favored the choice of Giganteo; and will now be able to test the wisdom of the preference that subjected our females to the restraining influence of this water power, so effectual for the suppression of a voiceful tongue, hollow in the resonant60 expression of truthful61 sincerity62. We have been informed by Manatitlan auramentors, that your women are almost universally afflicted63 with a gabbling epidemic64 of the tongue, beyond which, and the ear, the impression of their utterances65 rarely reaches; and we are truly glad that you have an abundant supply of large waterfalls provided as successful aids for the inauguration66 of a thoughtfully silent era. The shades of the northern colonnades and courts have, by the reflection of this wise choice, been made luminous67 with the rays of affectionate goodness, for woman’s sympathy in its purity and brightness can illumine the darkest night with enduring warmth proof to the vicissitudes68 of time and place.”
Dr. Baāhar. “Since the days of Archimedes there has certainly never been a hydrostatic invention for the practical use of water, that can compare with the beneficial result you proclaim.”
Pr?tor. “The Dosch desires me to give you the assurance that the hydraulic69 power of the cataract44 has been so well tested for tempering in infancy70 and youth a tendency to volubility, that with the least inclination to fanatical superstition71, the globular form of the earth might be esteemed73 the result of providential intention designed for the regulation of woman’s tongue, as it necessitates74 the waterfall in the flow of rivers.”
350This humorous interpretation75 of design excited a smile; but Correliana assured the members of the corps76, that the effect produced by the sound of the waterfall had been but little exaggerated, inasmuch as it directly induced a thoughtful mood, and disinclination to speak. After a moment’s thoughtful silence, she asked her father if the selection had in reality been made with the provised intention of inducting thought by interrupting speech; and if the women of Heraclea had at any anterior77 date given cause for the constant reproof78 of falling water, to chide79 them for the heedless use of the tongue? To which question the father replied, “You must recollect81, Correliana, that many centuries have passed since the temples were dedicated82 to educational direction. Then, as you are aware, Indegatus had been subjected to traitorous83 annoyances84, from which the Manatitlan Dosch of the period relieved him, enabling him to cope successfully with disaffection which had been fanned by woman’s tongue. The Dosch also desires me to remind you of the lessons you have been taught of the commune degradation85 of civilized86 women in Giga countries.”
Padre. “I have often heard of hydropathic treatment of scolding and gadding87 women, but this is certainly a great improvement, as it obviates88 by anticipation89 the ducking-stool.”
Descending90 from the temple walls into the garden court, the necks of Correliana and her mother were suddenly enclosed in the arms of a surpassingly beautiful form, whose face was concealed91 by a profusion92 of golden hair, which floated in glancing sheen, like the floss of the silk-tree, over the heads of the united three, closing from view the caresses93, which seemed to impart to the atmosphere a reciprocal flow of pervading94 affection, causing each member of the corps to stand transfixed with emotions transcending95 by far the highest attainments97 of admiration98. M. Hollydorf 351stood like a statue fully enravished from self, for he alone had caught a glimpse of the sunbeam’s features, as its rays darted99 from their concealment100, animated101 with a glow of gladness, that had been lying in wait for a joyful2 surprise. Bewildered with amazement102, he was seemingly lost to his personal identity, for he remained heedless and motionless, until recalled by the pr?tor’s salutation. “Luocuratia, my evoce, you must not forget the presence of our deliverers. This is M. Hollydorf, of whom your mother and sister have so often spoken.” Then leaving M. Hollydorf, with herself absorbed, he proceeded to introduce the other members of the corps, individually, the names of each Luocuratia pronounced mechanically, in repetition, without even the accompaniment of a furtive104 glance in diversion from the object of her first attraction. With her arms still encircling the neck of her mother and sister, she looked out from the veil of her hair, regarding M. Hollydorf with changing flushes of perplexed105 emotion coursing beneath her transparent106 skin, like borealian flashes beaming in a moonlit sky. Mr. Welson, whose quick perception had caught the source of the spell’s inspiration took the pr?tor’s arm, and then beckoning107 his companions, they joined the happy parents, who added to the fullness of their joy by introducing the members of the corps to their daughters. After enjoying the mutual108 flow of unbounded affection between parents and children, for a short time, as the centre of attraction, the pr?tor conducted them through the gate alcove109 of the garden screen, to an acacia hedge, through the interstices of which they could observe, undetected, the scenes of affectionate endearment110, in animated, but silent flow, passing in the conscious enactment111 of thoughtful impression, between the clustering family groups.
At the conclusion of a p?an song of thanksgiving, they engaged in various pastimes, improvised112 from 352the joyous113 promptings of the occasion, in which both old and young participated. All their movements were so replete114 with the affectionate expression of gleesome mirth, song, and frolic wit, the paucity115 of lingual116 accompaniments was scarcely noticed. The impression of our own feelings, in unison117, the padre recognized, who declared, upon his conscience, that he felt a brighter glow of conscious affection than words could convey, imparted from their silent expression of joyous reciprocation118. He soon became so wrought119 with the intensity120 of affectionate participation121, that he could not resist the attraction, but darted from ambush122, exclaiming, “Upon my soul, I know that I shall be like a bull in a china shop, but I must be with them,” and was soon in their midst, with face aglow123 from smiling excitement. The young Kyronese maidens125, from toddling126 infancy to seven,—the first stage in the course of instinctive127 life,—soon took possession of the padre by the right of pre?mption, holding him captive from its conferred privileges of priority in discovery; but permitted the Heraclean parents and children to participate in their joy, although holding him as a special bondsman to their arbitrary sway. Detaining Cleorita and Oviata as interpreters, they enlisted130 the padre as the representative champion of his race in their pastimes. But as an agile131 athlete his career was more successful for the enlistment132 of mirth, than for either grace or speed, for he fared worse than Dr. Baāhar in his trial with the family of the pr?tor, as he was unable to hold the shadows of an old man, of an hundred and sixty years, and his wife. Indeed, his movements and appearance indicated that he was their elder in age, for with graceful133 steps of equal pace, they kept their shadows from his feet, when in the eye of the sun they were lengthened134 in the rise of the hill. The merriment caused by his defeat cast no shadow over his happy face, but with buoyant smiles he challenged 353Dr. Baāhar’s badinage135 with the desire of testing his right to criticise136. This accepted, he was again defeated, without other evidences of chagrin137 than the frequent use of an apologetic if, in disjunctive evidence of his ability to outrun the best, when free from its restraint. The swift action and graceful motions of the Heraclean women, maidens, and men in running exceeded by far the highest descriptive flights of poetical imagination devoted138 to wood-nymph disportings upon the velvet139 sod, or those of the sea upon its margin140 of sand, in derivation from Grecian fable141 and song. While bestowing143 the warmest encomiums in the honest expression of admiration, the curiosity of the corps was excited to learn the means by which the graceful uniformity of the women had been preserved, in disengagement from the ungainly inheritance derived144 from the impression, supposed to be inherent with their first estate. For, with our civilisation145, a broad expansion of pelvic continuations, with the angular articulation146 of the lower extremities147, are esteemed as a progenic provision for ease in the functional148 speciality of procreation. The pr?tor answered from the dictation of the Dosch: “Our censorial149 guardians150 have, from the earliest date of Manatitlan direction, recognized the body’s unlimited151 capability152 for improvement, under the restrictive advisement of an education devoted to the kindly reciprocation of experience. Admonished153 by the negative effects, described as the resulting cause, that had produced with the women of your race unwieldy obesity155, with a consequent lack of animus156 power for current communication independent of language, they studied to perfect themselves in the Manatitlan art of quality improvement, for increase in affectionate transmission, from the impress of exampled alliance, without words. The Doschessa invokes157 you to conceive in imagination the impression that would be made upon our women, if, without previous 354description they should discover a flock of your Giga belles158 swinging up the avenue of the latifundium, with the longitude159, latitude160, and circumference161 of their dresses in oscillating sway from the movements of their limbs in semi-revolution, at an oblique162 angle from their broad pelvic axis163.”
Mr. Welson. “Fear would certainly be the first emotion, and I doubt if upon nearer acquaintance they would be able to discover in them qualities of merit sufficient for the stay of disgust. Unless, in their kindly pity, they should look upon them as samples of a female species of humans, who had in penance164 for stupidity been made to assume the role of jennies, self-condemned as beasts of burden to bear the material emblems165 of folly. Indeed, when fully impressed with the utter dearth166 of their conceptive intelligence, beyond the formulistic rites167 of fashionable instinct, and rote168 rehearsals169 of prayers for selfish preservation170, from the goading171 effects of self-immolation styled conscience, even pity would be likely to suffer in trembling hesitation172 upon the verge173 of abhorrence174.”
We will now leave the pr?tor and Dosch to entertain their guests in the courts and colonnades, while in reversion we complete our description of the garden tableau175. After the pr?tor’s departure with his guests, Luocuratia, unmindful of aught else, gazed through her flowing veil of hair upon the face of M. Hollydorf, with the wondering daze176 of the fawn177 when surprised in its leafy covert178 by the gentle presence of woman. With one arm still encircling her sister’s neck, yet seemingly unconscious of her presence, she was recalled to herself, from the dreamy maze103 of her vision, by the voice of her mother. Then she asked with fluttering hesitation, “What is it?” Correliana caressingly179 removed the arm from her neck, then gathering180 her sister’s flowing hair from her brow, bore it back from her face, 355and while her mother bound it with a silicoth fillet, whisperingly, with the prelude181 of a kiss, replied, “It is yourself, Luocuratia, be calm, and to-night you shall know.” M. Hollydorf, who had attended Correliana like a doomed182 shadow, from the day they left the Tortuga, thinking and acting26 from her prompting, even in matters pertaining183 to his professional avocations184, had with the first glance that he caught of her sister’s face, stood like one transfixed, his eyes alternating from one to the other, until the attraction of Luocuratia’s involved his own. Placing Luocuratia in her mother’s charge, Correliana took M. Hollydorf’s hand and directed him to a vine-covered alcove in the lower garden walk. When seated, she said, “We are so thankful, for we are now saved from the inherent misery185 that broods like a pall186 over your people. You will now be happy, but not yourself again! If I should allow you to recover from the amazement of your surprise, without an explanation, you might think me lacking in truthful sympathy, which we hold, under direction, as the privileged source of our affection. Advised, from the first, of the instability of instinctive ‘love’ founded upon personal attractions, which is the ruling incentive187 for marriage with your race, I withheld188 from you a knowledge of my sister’s existence, and our twin resemblance, that her affections might not be invoked189 with peril190; for as you have felt, we are endowed with the censorial essentials of perception in premonition of cause and effect. The long delayed visit to our schools was deferred191, for the proof of your susceptibility to our current flow, and constancy in affection; and we are happy in being able to feel the assurance that the transfer of your allegiance to her keeping will be free from regretful reflection. Notwithstanding the long endurance to which you have been subjected, and the severity of the trial for the cure of your self-imposed humiliation192, 356the result not only compensates193 for your suffering, but confirms the wisdom of the judgment that prompted the restraint, by enhancing the zest194 with the security of a happy fruition. The relief to me is unspeakable, for in my assisted study of your peculiarities196 we have learned that from your appreciation197 of our unselfish affection the idea of returning to your people has become repugnant beyond the endurance of thought. Your sensitiveness so well corresponds with Curatia’s in nature, that we are sure her influence will aid you in transferring your sole reliance for happiness to Heraclean keeping, but not in forgetfulness of your responsibility for the welfare of your people. But it is well for you to understand her inability to cope with selfishness, which we are informed, holds supreme198 control with your race. Even my bolder nature that dared almost inevitable199 capture by our savage200 foes201, from the physical weakness of our people, from want, shrinks with the thought of incurring202 the instinctive abuse they are said to heap upon the good and evil alike, who oppose their gainful lusts203.”
M. Hollydorf’s countenance204 was at first moved with reflective embarrassment205, from the self-impressed accusation206 of inconstancy, but as Correliana made no allusion207 to his defection, except for the expression in grateful relief, his spirits gradually revived from selfimposed oppression. Yet in attempting to express his appreciation of the remarkable208 resemblance of features, his tongue refused logical utterance. In anticipation of what he wished to say, Correliana bid him rest easy on the score of the past, as a full relation of all that had transpired210 would in no way impair211 the confidence of Luocuratia, but would rather tend to increase the development of her affection from the preference you have shown for her resemblance. This tacit sanction, for the transfer, restored M. Hollydorf’s grateful impressions, which raised his 357spirits to an unwonted degree of elation209. But a serious shade of thought having settled upon the brow of Correliana his apprehensions212 were again startled. Observing the relapse she hastened to reassure213 him, by asking, “How is it that you, and Captain Greenwood, have remained so long under the rule of selfishness, with natures so quick for the appreciation of our example?”
M. Hollydorf thoughtfully replied: “It was undoubtedly214 with us as with thousands of others, whose thoughts in association were under the control of evil example, in following the educated usages of the past with unquestioning and reverential reliance, expressed in the fatuous215 motto of society in all its grades, which contends that ‘what has been, will be, to all eternity216.’ This willfully blind abrogation217 of creative indications for self-reduction to brutality218, has been fostered by a religion that directly encourages evil by offering the means of redemption to the vilest219, by rights and ceremonies which ignore the practical evidences of purity and goodness. Offering in substitution, vague terms which lure220 the stupid masses to present misery and a hopeless material end. A modicum221 of these prestigical word combinations, the padre has furnished for the education of your tonguester birds; but if you should pass through the streets of our cities, with every step, your eyes, nose, and ears would be saluted222 with defilements that would cause you to shrink with shame from your kinship with civilized humanity.”
“Alue!” exclaimed Correliana, with sadness, “we are so puzzled in our endeavors to understand the source of the misleading infatuation; as the means of happiness is so evident and easy, and their rejection223 so labored, inconsistent, and unnatural224, pardon my sincerity, that we are constrained225, from the testimony226, to believe that civilized enlightenment, with your other vague terms, are in fact the wordy hallucinations 358of precedental madness. In the review of our past lives, under the impression of your example, we have absolutely acknowledged the impeachment227, replied M. Hollydorf. Even Dr. Baāhar’s fantastical ideas of precedental ‘virtue,’ derived from the vicarious nursing of a maiden124 aunt, whose celebic worship was devoted to the curative inspiration of a pill-box, which imposed upon him the humors of medical study, has at last in so far yielded to the affectionate sincerity of Heraclean example that he secludes228 himself when he worships, with the smoke offerings of the pipe dedicated by imperial and princely lips, as a reflection of worldly honors.”
Correliana. “But your women, M. Hollydorf? Do they no longer feel within them the current affection bestowed229 for transmission with an increase from happy usage?”
M. Hollydorf. “Here, in besieged230 seclusion231, you have had but little opportunity, even with Manatitlan teachings, to learn with a realizing impression the besetting232 temptations of envious233 vanity, which have beguiled234 our women from their natural inheritance of unselfish love; and if their more extended and practical experience has failed to open for understanding vision the vista235 of civilized woman’s folly, my efforts will prove a bewildering aggravation236 to your already puzzled perception. But if you persevere237 in your colonistic intention, and are able to sustain the shock imparted from the degradation of your sex from all the hopeful endearments238 that should render life desirable for transmission, you will, I fear, despondingly lament239 the hopeless nature of your undertaking240. Then, you will, I doubt not, shed tears of bitterness more acute from baffled sympathy, than those bestowed in memorial tribute for your relatives when triply besieged by savage foes, famine, and pestilence241.”
Correliana. “But you have ruined cities, like old Heraclea, scattered242 broadcast over the surface of 359your continents, which bespeak243 in as plain language the end of folly, envy, hate, and revenge?”
M. Hollydorf. “These are visited by pilgrims of curiosity, who in retailing244 their conjectural245 wares246 of relic247 origin, give no practical heed80 to cause and effect for the inauguration of an era of educated prevention. Yea more, on their return to the haunts of civilization jostle with indifference248 living memorials of a misery as abject249 in servile dependence250 upon drones, as the slaves who passed a laboring251 and starving existence in rearing these ruined fanes of delusion252 for the gratification of ambitious bigotry253 and despotism.”
Correliana. “But you, as men, represent the different nationalities considered to be the most and least susceptible254 to kindly intelligence; yet each of you, in your degree, have held yourselves, from choice, with few exceptions, amenable255 to our example. All of your adherents256 have acknowledged themselves better and happier than they ever expected to be in life. Still, you doubt our ability to enlist129, with the simplicity257 and purity of our example, the affectionate reciprocations of your women? Surely you speak in riddles258 of enactment and theory, as perplexing as if in discourse259 you should say, empty barns full of grain. Are there not many others among your learned men equally able to distinguish that purity and goodness are in reality the source of happiness; and from their own experience, that evil results in misery and woe260? Then why do your anticipations261 forbode for our kindly sympathies a distress262 so dire18?”
M. Hollydorf. “There are undoubtedly many thousands, if not millions, who would hold themselves as gratefully amenable to your affectionate example as the members of the corps, if they could be subjected to the same experience. For we are in no way better than the well disposed commonalty, and were as heedless before we were attracted by your example, 360as the generality. Speaking honestly, in my own behalf, for my own disparagement263, I rarely, if ever, became disengaged in thought from the instincts of selfishness while in association with the most exalted264 of our kind. In truth, I never felt in the remotest degree that there was a reality in the reputed second existence advocated by our mythology265, and was in no way impressed with an assurance of immortality266, until we were imperceptibly led to recognize its impression from the example of yourself and people. But you must recollect that our meeting was under peculiar195 auspices268, which enlisted and absorbed our sympathies to the exclusion269 of self, as if in premonition of the eventful recompense following in train. No favoring circumstances like those transpiring270 for our introduction, will be likely to prepossess our people in your undertaking, for their own behoof, if we except the sensational271 announcement which will herald272 your origin, in connection with our Animalculan discovery. The impression that will be imparted from your exampled exposition of the effects of Heraclean education will prove as evanescent in the substitution of purity and goodness for the material excitements of instinctive gratification, as the opening imitations of the popular humorist, or lyceum lecturer, who attract the attention of their audiences for an hour with quips and snaffles of idiomatic273 license274, or theories as valueless as shadows. If the proscriptor’s compilations275 should fail to awaken276 their thoughtful interest, in their own behalf, with a realizing desire for the inauguration of a system of education for the benefit of succeeding generations, then I fear that your treasured hopes will find in recognition a tardy277 requital278.”
Correliana. “But are not the emotions expressed by your word friendship, the talismanic279 offshoots of affection; and will they not aid our example enlisted for the inauguration of a system of education that will 361bestow upon their children a living realization280 of immortal267 impressions?”
M. Hollydorf. “Better by far that you rely upon your own unaided example, and in no way venture your hopes upon the hazard of its trial! For there is not in the word catalogue of instinctive delusions281, one so hypocritically heartless and treacherous282. Friendship in demonstration283 with our race, is, as the Dosch has informed you, a ‘marketable commodity,’ as variable in expressed quality and price as the puff284 stocks founded upon the gambling285 exchange of gold. It extends its material aid upon like security in kind, and gold as the medium, is the equivalent of grateful reciprocation. In fact, gratitude286 and friendship in manifestation287 with us may be truthfully expressed as an ambuscade of expectation lying in wait for the surprise of future favors. It grieves me that I have no truthful resource from which to impart consolation288 and assurance, in solace289 for the encouragement of your proposed adventure; for, to our judgment, the sanction of the Manatitlan auramentors offers the only hopeful warrant of its feasibility. But for the better exposition of the instinctive heartlessness of our race, I will endeavor to give you a true representation of the result of our discovery, if the golden deposits of your mountains and rivers should be revealed to the students of our colleges. Abandoning their studies they would lead in the tide of adventurous290 emigration, and on reaching your city, heedless of your example, they would take advantage of weakness as a license, that in gratification would defy tears, pleadings, and expostulations advocating your rights of local option. The Englishman would hold it as his sovereign right to do as he pleased, with the certainty that his government would hold you responsible for any resistance to his acts, and with the pretext292 of an alleged293 affront294, the ocean cormorant295 would plume296 her wings and sharpen her beak297 and talons298 for 362your engorgement, esteeming299 you and your city ‘lawful prey300.’ Emigrants301 from my own, and nations of kindred habits, would claim the philosophical302 privilege of corrupting303 your fruits and grains, by brewing305 and distilling306 them into strong drinks; which Tacitus, a historian of your race, alleges307 was the practice of the Germans from the period of their earliest settlements. But a few days, or weeks, would pass, before your city’s present cleanly freedom from the evidences of detrition, would be changed into a sty reeking308 with filth309 and saintly odors, and your temple schools into progenic beer nurseries for the instinctive propagation of liberalism, and sogdonian classics, peculiar to the transition period of the incursive pot-pourri invasions of the northern, eastern, and western hordes310, into Germany. In usurpation311 of the current flow of affection, that responds in grateful songs of praise to the Creator, the hoarse312 croaking313 of maudlin314 revellers would make night hideous315 with strepitant grunts316 of liberty and instinctive patriotism317; while in vindication318 of hereditary privilege, they would exhibit their memorial ‘love and friendship’ by sword emblazonry tattooed319 upon each other’s cheeks, chorused in medley320 with oaths from English, Irish, French, and other idiomatic mouths as accompaniments to their manuals in the art of self defense321. If your people should adventure affectionate expostulation in behalf of their children, they in reply would exhibit their bloated and bleared visages as the fatherly source of a new and regenerate322 race of freemen, delivered by the democratic efficacy of saving grace from the pulings of puritanism. Well aware of my inherited defects and unworthiness for the privileged enjoyment323 of your people’s purity, I shudder324 with the reflection that the current of your affection could be stayed, and forever turned backward, if by rumor325 the golden treasures in utensil326 use should be bruited327 in the civilized purlieus of our cities for the attraction of their troglodyte328 grovellers hitherward.”
363Correliana (with clasped hands and tearful eyes.) “May goodness forefend us from a calamity329 so dire! Better by far the consummation so long urged by our savage foes! But we must still cling to our hopes founded upon your ready perception of an affection that enables us to live away from human bodies with habits such as you have so wofully described.”
As Correliana uttered in fervent330 appeal her invocation, the pr?tor called M. Hollydorf to indicate the selection he had made from the young maidens to fulfill331 the marriage intention with the verging332 graduates of the male department? In answer to this quizzical request, he acknowledged that the only maidens he had seen were Luocuratia and Correliana, but with his happy impressions would endeavor to make amends333 for his selfishness. All, with the exception of the padre, confirmed the censor’s choice, but he with his usual uncertitude of thought made such varied334 and liberal selections that in consummation they would have proved sadly polygamous. The Dosch had already explained that the education of the Heraclean children had been limited to the practical requirements for the supply of family wants, in conducive335 aid for the perfection of happy association. So that in the educational department of letters the variety had been of the most meagre description, the quota336 of information relative to the affairs of the world at large having been supplied by Manatitlan auramentors. Accomplishments337 and ritual formulistic ceremonies were unknown.
We were more than surprised with admiration, when we visited the kitchen department, in which the manipulations were conducted with such ease and purity, that our previous ideas entertained of housekeeping were quite confounded. During our inspection338 of the kitchen, the busy hands of a detachment of young maidens were engaged in the preparation of food for the midday collation339; their faces the while 364were beaming with the rays of unspeakable gladness, and their eyes in condimental purity imparted luxurious340 joy, as a relishing342 foretaste to the edible343 results of their culinary pastimes. In keeping the bright glow of the unique utensils344, of beautifully alloyed gold, reflected in the convex and concave radiance of their disks the lustrous345 embodiment of maidenly346 proportions, with faces comically imaged in grotesque347 contrast with the reality. The dwarfed348 reduction of their graceful forms and faces to a semblance38 in breadth of visaged mouth, nose, cheek, and eyes, to the chattel349 biddy instincts who hold untidy supremacy350 in the kitchen departments of civilization, gave a mirthful vitality351 to the metallic352 expression that heightened the ludicrous effect, so that under our watchful353 gaze, it would occasionally culminate354 in the voiceful melody of a laugh. Purity and order reigned355 supreme, so that there was neither odor or speck356 for insect attraction. The effect of this ruling self-dependence was heightened with vivid impression, from the expression of grateful pride that beamed with the emulative357 exhibition of their “useful accomplishments.” In their personalities358 they were so free from adhesive359 taint291, that the atmosphere seemed pervaded360 with the clarifying transpirations of beings exalted above the grossness of mortality.
Our own unworthy selves, reflected in contrast from the clear transparency of their bodily investments, caused us to shrink abashed361 from the hallowed precincts that bespoke362 in their immaculate purity a perfection that we had supposed beyond the reach of mortal attainment96. M. Hollydorf, who was of us all the most sensitively mindful in holding himself amenable to the Heraclean example in personal purity, scarcely ventured to cross the threshold, for among the hand-maidens Luocuratia had taken her place, but with her thoughtful face tinged363 with blushes shadowed from the dawning realm of unrevealed 365emotions. Her side-glances, timidly regardful in wondering perplexity, surveyed the object of her newborn attraction in thoughtful search for the evidences of reciprocal impression. But the educated society sophistications of M. Hollydorf’s instinctive self clouded the frankness of his expression with the turmoil364 of impulsive365 excitement, that rendered him unintelligible366 and diffident in bearing. This sensitive shield of instinct baffled her longing367 search for the current impressions of assimilation, imparting to her hands a trembling uncertainty368, plainly indicating that her devotions were not fully enlisted for the ritualistic perfection required for the shapely modeling of the oracular cakes intrusted to her leavening369 touch of purity. To our less enamored vision her touch seemed to impart chaste370 consecration371, for not the slightest stain or discoloration from edible crudity372, in preparation for the elaboration of fire, was retained by her hands, so that in contrast we were again inclined to revolt from ourselves. But with all our opposition373, intrusive374 memory forced upon us, with prompted aid, the contrast of swinish priests administering their wafers of dough375 desecrated376 by their filthy377 hands for the unthinking drove specialities of the common herd378. In verification of the common impression, the padre whispered to Mr. Welson, “I wish to goodness I dared receive one of those crumpets from her hands, for upon my soul I believe it would shrive me for a taste of purity?”
M. Hollydorf overhearing the padre’s supplication379 cast upon him a grateful look of appreciation. Admonished by our feelings of grossness, we with reverence380 retreated beyond the charmed circle, but lingered within view screened by a hedge of rose and honeysuckle, through which our eyes paid worshipful devotion to the digital service of the kitchen nymphs. Without the aid of mystic conjurations, the scene seemed invested with a refinement381 of purity that exceeded 366the compass of instinct, raising our capacities for the realization of beauty, with a halcyon382 blending, for the perception of an enduring affection. Spell-bound within our enclosure, delightfully383 absorbed with our thoughtful contemplations, and nectarious impressions, varied with occasional voiceful melodies, concerted in time to the movements of busy hands and feet, we were startled from our reveries, and retranslated back to the grossness of appetite, by the exclamation384, “Oh, for a Tobias sausage, well underlayed and flanked with gamey kraut, and a mug of foamy385 lager, for I am as hungry as a bear.”
The body of Dr. Baāhar appeared in the rear of this hungry ejaculation, enveloped386 in flowers and cuttings bestowed by the teachers from the garden growths cultivated by the pupils. In a moment the carols of the kitchen celestas ceased, and sidelong glances were directed to the hedge to detect the intruder whose guttural accents betrayed the profanity of his petition. The effect produced by this interruption may be truthfully likened to the hush387 imposed upon the twilight388 warblings of the water-thrush, swayed in tuneful measure upon the spray by the evening zephyr389, and the rippling390 accompaniment of a flowing stream, when its evening carols are suddenly checked and silenced, for the night, by the croaking heralds391 of darkness from the sedgy confines of a neighboring bog392. Even the padre, whose stomach had many a time and oft remonstrated393 with indigestive harshness against the introduction of crab394 salad,—saur-kraut’s English and American cousin,—egg-nogs, brandy smashes, and like poetical compounds for its disposal, stood aghast at this profanation395 of the divinities’ edible incantations. Finding himself unexpectedly subjected to an array of admonitory glances, his eyes sought through the openings in the hedge the cause of his cool reception, and with its revelation became aware of his invocation’s 367apostate grossness. As he stood peering through the leafy screen, forgetful of his flowery decorations, he looked like a satyr wood-god of ancient devisement, in orchidean envelope, regaling his sight with a surreptitious view of the grove nymphs while adorning396 their persons for the festal mysteries.
Correliana, who came with the teachers to escort us to the refectory colonnade15, with the desire of the scholars that we would test the relish341 of their food preparations, aided in disrobing the doctor of his flowery dress; this accomplished397 we joined the parents and children who were waiting to receive us in the vestibule. The tables were covered with cloths of tinted398 white interwoven from the fibres of the plantain and tree silk-floss, which produced a novel effect. This cloth was styled Tapalmtr?, a web of lighter399 texture400 being used for raiment. When seated, the Dosch addressing us from the platform of the tympano-microscope, which had been transferred from the pr?tor’s table for the day, asked us to bestow142 our critical attention upon the cloth, to detect its conservative peculiarities for cleanly protection and rejection of corrupt304 attaint. The brightness, purity, and softness of the fabric401, had not only attracted our attention as consonant402 with the characteristics of Correliana, on the occasion of our first interview, although reduced for the supply of others’ necessities, to the limits of modesty403, in extremity404, but had with the scientific zest of curiosity been the subject of speculative405 investigation406 after our arrival in Heraclea. But since our introduction to the Manatitlans, it had only attracted our attention, feeling well assured that all in accruance for mutual benefit would in season be made known. “Its apparent peculiarities, in their partial perfection, we have been enabled to bestow upon the Heracleans,” explained the Dosch, “for their advantage during the trials of the siege. Although, from the lack of material, and means of elaboration, 368imperfect in comparison with our attainments in its illimitable adaptation for the fulfillment of all material requirements for protection, it has subserved with them for the supply of a protective agent to their textile fabrics407, conservative in transmissible durability408 and sanitary409 purity. Its special adaptative qualities are the extremes of mobility410 and immobility, and imponderability in degree sufficient for relieving the impressions of weight. These, together with a non-adhesive surface, with a capability for rendering it elastic411 and non-elastic to either extreme, and indestructible from exposure to the elements, have served as invaluable412 aids for comfort and their preservation. As an effective aid for increasing the durability of textile fabrics, you can judge when I state that the garments and cloths are heir-looms of centuries’ transmission as well with the Heracleans as with our race; an electrical current keeping them repulsively413 free from impurity414, they are to all intents new to each succeeding generation.”
Padre. “Why, what a boon415 the art will prove to the world? especially to the poor, who will esteem72 you their benefactors416 forevermore.”
Dosch. “It has, with many other attainments, been achieved by goodness for the perfection of purity; and as the miseries417 of your race are self-inflicted from the stupidity of over-indulgence, its bestowal418 upon them, in their present state, would prove an encouragement to evil, rather than for its abatement419. From this consideration we do not intend to hold ourselves culpable420 by offering it as a premium421 for the cultivation422 of selfish greed and luxurious indulgence. The scientific improvements of your progressive race in the adaptation of vegetable, animal, and metallic productions for the development of their tiger instincts, is quite sufficient for the exemplification of their delusive423 aspirations424, without prostituting the labors425 of affection for the encouragement of envious hatred426.”
369Padre. “But do you arrogate427 to yourselves greater goodness in your decrees than God, who bestows428 sun and rain on the good and evil alike?”
Dosch. “Your distinction of Creative indications in the bestowal of gifts, is, in delusive appeal an assumption characteristic with sectarianism. It should be evident to perception, that Creative benefactions extend to the whole creation, to the reptile429, and monkey, as well as to the higher grades of mankind. But the endowment of humanity with powers of discernment to distinguish between good and evil, is an indication of intention that directly implies the privilege of choice for securing the results of happiness or misery. In other words, if man prostitutes his privilege, and makes a brute430 of himself, he must expect the living void of bestiality, and incapacity for present happiness, with its affectionate premonitions of immortality.”
When seated, the pr?tor, while acknowledging the superiority of knives and forks, drew from his hand its transparent glove, offering it as an apology for the use of their fingers in eating, by showing that it was repellant to adhesive matter. Although instructed in the use of chop-sticks, and knives and forks, they were not yet proficient431 in their use, and would prefer the use of their fingers with their silicoth gloves if the habit would not offend? This accorded, a maiden was self-assigned to each guest who adjusted Mappas (napkins) to their necks. Luocuratia, radiant with blushes and smiles, assumed the charge of M. Hollydorf, assisted by an Indian maiden of singular beauty. Correliana observing the curious interest excited by her presence and others of her race, introduced her by the name of Toitla, as one of their foster sisters of the Betongo tribe, taken when infants and adopted for a hostage education; their parents visiting them whenever an opportunity offered without attracting the notice of their savage 370allies, a swinging bridge having been constructed for the northern basin of the falls to facilitate their entrance and exit unobserved. “To their gratitude,” she exclaimed with tearful eyes, “we are indebted for the food that preserved us from starvation, when the malignant432 river savages433 sowed caterpillars434 and other noxious435 grubs upon the wind, from the brink of the precipice, which destroyed our means of subsistence.”
After the first course of maize436 and banana-bread,—styled by the padre crumpets, while under the moulding pressure of Luocuratia’s fair hands,—the elder maidens seated themselves beside their parents, the little ones taking their places, their busy eyes watchful for an opportunity to render aid in supplying the wants of their parents and guests. So well versed24 were they in the language of eyes, tongues were rarely used. Our most skillful performer with the knife and fork caused them to stand on tiptoe with wonder, in view of their rapid alternations in the transfer of food to his mouth, although himself unmindful of special notice. Whether the pantomimic expressions evoked437 from their symmetrical hands, arms, and questioning eyes, were elicited438 from the quantity or facile speed in the disposal of food, we could not judge. At the close of the refection, the pr?tor remarked, that the impression of their debt of gratitude was accumulating so fast from an increase in happiness, they felt sensitively the poverty of their resources for making suitable returns. “But if you will only wait with confidence, our dispositions439 will find some method of recompense that will prove more acceptable than metallic gold?”
Mr. Welson assured him if true happiness could be considered a meed for equivalent reciprocation, the Heracleans had conferred far more by their example than they had received.
Dosch. “Then you must fain remain content with 371each other, and bestow your mutual aid upon the less favored for the recognition of your source of happiness. As the day is drawing to a close, perhaps Dr. Baāhar will favor us, and the other children, with his impressions and ideas derived from his associations of the day?”
The doctor, without apology, responded as follows: “During the day I have been so enchanted440 with the harmonizing voices of the parents and children, free from chiding441, whining442 importunities and reproachful bitterness, common to our schools, both male and female, that I was often prompted to speak to you of the effect that has ever been accorded to harmony in musical concord443, from the remotest antiquity444; but checked myself from reverting445 to classical fables446 in view of the brighter reality of your example, which has impressed me with the reflection of a future, made glorious with the realization of your true affection, as the only abiding447 source of happiness. We feel ourselves novices448 in appreciation and capacity for reciprocation, as well as in the power of self-command, but will treasure your loving example for a clearer perception of our faults of omission449 and commission. Notwithstanding our gratitude has but recently emerged from its cocoon450 of selfishness, we feel that its rays are brighter, warmer, and more kindly in their influence and extension, and truly hope that we shall be able to reflect your example for the lasting451 good of the well disposed. If the possibility or probability of reducing a woman’s tongue, young or old, of any race, to the limits of useful, witty452, or consoling speech, dictated453 from thoughtful impressions for kindly reciprocation, had been advocated in my presence by the members of the royal scientific societies of London, Paris, or Berlin, I should have given less heed to their arguments in support of feasibility, than to the babblings of a brook454. Or if in prophecy, the scenes of to-day had been foretold455 as a probable 372event likely to occur by any transition, I should have attributed its source to the fantastical chimeras456 of a fool. Moreover, if in thought suggestion the Manatitlan auramentors had substituted the idea that I could improve upon ancestral precedents457, I should have thought myself, when free from their influence, subject to the freaks of insanity458. Albeit459 not much given to respect in following advice, or imitating parental460 example in my youth, still both law and gospel forbade one to think himself wiser in his generation than his antecedents; from this prevailing461 authority we expected that our men would wield154 their swords, and the women their tongues, in opposition to their own promulgated462 ways and means of salvation463, to the end. From the light of this morning’s example I can realize, in view of the past, that inconsistency is the soul of instinctive selfishness, as well as the ‘substance’ of law and gospel, upon which we found our vaunted civilization. In addition, your system of education founded upon the practical adaptation of study to the requirements of life, makes me feel that I have used my brain as a store-house for the vile128 and useless lumber464 of past ages, which had better have been buried in the instinctive grave of oblivion. In fact, I have hibernated465 in common with the class styled learned men, in company with the corrupt bodies of a dead ancestry466; and while subject to the winter gloom of instinct, have existed in ritualistic dependence upon the fancied nutriment derived from sucking my mental paws, while in truth exhausting my resources of vitality, and hopes of immortality. But whatever there is in me left of rational appreciation, capable of being cultivated in diversion from the baneful467 influence of the past, shall be devoted to the welfare of future generations, for the abatement of selfish greed which seeks to accumulate in excess of self-requirements to the detriment468 of others.”
373At the close of the doctor’s declaration of faith, the padre quietly remarked to Mr. Welson, that he fully believed in the Manatitlans and their power of thought substitution. Then, after even-song, Correliana led in a hymn469 commemorative of Heraclean deliverance, of which the following is an imperfect rendition:—
“Father Supreme, our guide and stay,
When sore opprest for others’ wrongs,
In pity, Thou didst ope a way
To save; to Thee the praise belongs.
“Guide those, to whom we owe the aid,
Under Thy sole direction sent,
That our paths of peace may be made
Through them the sign of great event.
“That instead of war brings goodwill470,
Preferring kindred love to self,
That others’ joy may prove their skill
In place of hoarding471 useless pelf472.
“Nor deem it ill, that they can learn
From Manatitlans peaceful sway,
Love’s power to bring like return,
And bear from hate the palm away.”
After exacting473 a promise that we would accompany their parents on their next monthly visit, we were permitted to depart, and, as the temple gates closed, held in review, with thoughtful silence, the scenes of the day, feeling within us that they were the index of future happiness for our race. Our thoughtful revery was broken by Lindenhoff, the corps’ genealogical curator of sound, who expostulated: “It is strange that the Heracleans still continue to drone the old p?an cadences474 practiced by the Greeks four thousand years ago, after hearing the Manatitlan operatists; for they are really a wonderful people, and superior musicians, notwithstanding their lack of power for the expression of the deeper emotions of rage, love, and revenge, which are in reality the vitality 374and soul of our great master’s compositions. They show but little versatility475 in fugue movement, which expresses the gliding476 power of musical intelligence; this certainly discovers a material lack of appreciation, however accomplished they may be in other respects. In fact, the Manatitlans would be esteemed as superior vocalists the world over, if they could register a little more volume to their voices. I would much rather undergo one of Mr. Welson’s practical jokes than listen again to the droning of the Heracleans, for their execution was perfectly477 shocking, and they have far less capacity in the lower scale than the bumble-bee.”
The music taster’s criticism provoked a hearty478 laugh, but the padre, with warmth, exclaimed: “Upon my soul, for the life of me, I can’t see any cause for fault finding with sound, when the words harmonized so well with one’s feelings of grateful sympathy. A good heartfelt invocation from such voices, which were as beautiful as their faces, should not be questioned by our coarse natures! Why, man alive, if I had had the voice of a nightingale, it would have choked with kindly emotions from the harmony of their affectionate solicitations in our behalf! Faugh, man, your opera tral-la-la yells are as empty as the screechings of cockatoos and the croakings of frogs in comparison! The chord of sympathy they touched is beyond the reach of your Norma quirketizations.”
All joined in hearty commendation of the padre’s strictures on the hypercritical curator, Mr. Welson reminding him that the Maniculan choristers would have failed to impress his sensitive ears with their excellence479 without the magnifying aid of the tympanum. “In full chorus, to the unassisted ear, their music would have sounded monotonous, hardly reaching in volume the lisping chirrupings of an infantile cricket, heard from its home in a distant cranny. As with your registrations480 of impressions derived from 375its voice, the Heracleans would find Manatitlan instruction wanting in volume for successful imitation. But,” he added, as Correliana overtook them, “here is the offending composer; we will now hear what she has to say in extenuation481 for neglect of opportunity for improvement in the cultivation of fugue flights above the reach of harmony.”
Correliana, observing the quizzical expression of mirth that accompanied this appeal, inquired the cause. In answer, Mr. Welson rehearsed the criticism of the curator, to which she blushingly replied: “You will, I hope, consider in our behalf, when I acknowledge the justness of your criticism, that before your arrival we were constantly harrassed with troubles which required the active employment of our people’s thoughts in the devisement of expedients482 for preservation. These kept us occupied with the full enlistment of our sympathies, so that we could only exercise our musical inclinations in the transmitted current of our original songs of thanksgiving. But in our greatest distress we longed for a harmonized extension of capacity, that you have supplied with adjuvantic aids, from which, in time, we hope that we may be able to render you satisfaction, with the evidences of industrious483 application.”
The curator of sound was too much abashed for an apologetic reply; and the Dosch requested Mr. Welson to say, that for their evening’s entertainment he would relate the circumstances that placed the “dulcetina” in the hands of Captain Greenwood for disposal.
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degradation
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caresses
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fulfill
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quota
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inspection
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collation
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luxurious
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relish
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relishing
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utensils
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maidenly
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grotesque
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supremacy
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vitality
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metallic
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watchful
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culminate
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reigned
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speck
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personalities
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adhesive
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pervaded
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bespoke
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tinged
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turmoil
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impulsive
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unintelligible
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longing
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uncertainty
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leavening
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chaste
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consecration
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crudity
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opposition
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intrusive
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dough
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desecrated
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filthy
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supplication
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reverence
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refinement
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halcyon
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delightfully
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exclamation
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foamy
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enveloped
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hush
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twilight
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zephyr
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rippling
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heralds
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bog
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crab
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profanation
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adorning
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accomplished
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tinted
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lighter
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texture
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modesty
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extremity
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speculative
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investigation
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fabrics
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durability
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sanitary
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mobility
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elastic
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repulsively
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impurity
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boon
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benefactors
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bestowal
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abatement
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culpable
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premium
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cultivation
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aspirations
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labors
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hatred
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arrogate
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bestows
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reptile
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brute
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proficient
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savages
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chiding
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whining
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concord
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antiquity
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reverting
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fables
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novices
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omission
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cocoon
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witty
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dictated
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brook
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foretold
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chimeras
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precedents
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insanity
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albeit
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parental
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prevailing
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promulgated
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salvation
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lumber
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hibernated
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ancestry
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baneful
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detriment
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hymn
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| n.赞美诗，圣歌，颂歌 | |
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goodwill
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hoarding
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pelf
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exacting
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cadences
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versatility
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gliding
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perfectly
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hearty
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excellence
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registrations
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extenuation
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| n.减轻罪孽的借口；酌情减轻；细 | |
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expedients
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