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“So,” said I to myself, “because of Jack1 and his love, all the aspirations2 of my life are to be crushed! The whole dream of my existence, which has come so near to the fruition of a waking moment, is to be violently dispelled3 because my own son and Sir Kennington Oval have settled between them that a pretty girl is to have her own way.” As I thought of it, there seemed to be a monstrous4 cruelty and potency5 in Fortune, which she never could have been allowed to exercise in a world which was not altogether given over to injustice7. It was for that that I wept. I wept to think that a spirit of honesty should as yet have prevailed so little in the world. Here, in our waters, was lying a terrible engine of British power, sent out by a British Cabinet Minister, — the so-called Minister of Benevolence8, by a bitter chance, — at the instance of that Minister’s nephew, to put down by brute9 force the most absolutely benevolent10 project for the governance of the world which the mind of man had ever projected. It was in that that lay the agony of the blow.
I remained there alone for many hours, but I must acknowledge that before I left the chambers11 I had gradually brought myself to look at the matter in another light. Had Eva Crasweller not been good-looking, had Jack been still at college, had Sir Kennington Oval remained in England, had Mr Bunnit and the bar-keeper not succeeded in stopping my carriage on the hill, — should I have succeeded in arranging for the final departure of my old friend? That was the question which I ought to ask myself. And even had I succeeded in carrying my success so far as that, should I not have appeared a murderer to my fellow-citizens had not his departure been followed in regular sequence by that of all others till it had come to my turn? Had Crasweller departed, and had the system then been stopped, should I not have appeared a murderer even to myself? And what hope had there been, what reasonable expectation, that the system should have been allowed fair-play?

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强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音 | |
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joyous
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countenance
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possessed
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seclusion
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triumphant
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herds
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herd
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interfere
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courteous
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civilisation
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proceeding
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