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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 225, 3 January 1885, Page 1

".It is hitman nature. Did you ' eyeif " observe a thwarted ' child striking' in '> its «%er the unoffending , nurse/ destro^ng' its toWtb 1 discharge its wrath ? Did you ever see a schoolboy, unable -to wreak his. anger on the bigger boy who had just . struck hirn r turn against the nearest smaller boy and beat him ? Did you ever know a schoolmaster, angered by one of the boy's parents, vent "h& pent-up spleen upon, the unoffending, class ? '*. Did you -. ever see a subaltern punished because an 4b officer has been , reprimanded ? ijThese. are-,.' ..familiar examples -of vicarious vengea^defe --*"' -When the soul is stung to fury, it niust solace '*': itself by*the discharge of '- that ■ fury--ifc -uiust-- ■ relieve its pain by the sight of pain in others. > We are so constituted/ We need sympathy : ' above all other .things. Tn joy we cannot .'■■' bear to see others in- distress"; "in distress, we set; the joy of others with dismal csnvy which. ' sharpens our pain. -That is human- nature.?' m - "And,'' I exclaimed,, carried away by ray indignation, •ifyou suppose' that the sight of these two happy girls, beaming with the" quiet ; joy of brides, Avas* torture to some miserable wretch who had lost his bride." ". - ■""'',, I had gone- too %,r. His eyes looked into "i mine. I read in his' that he divined the whole drift of my suspicion— the allusion made to himself There often passes into a look more v than words con venture to express. In that look he read that, he was discovered, and 1 read that he: had recognized it. "With per-.. • feet calmne.ss;,Tbut with a metallic ring in fis ; ; voice which was like the clash of swords," he "-.( said : " :; : . ■ . . ';]. . '" J 4M-- not sa 5 r tnat I supposed this ; but. as we #lw. Qn t ' lt ' wide field of conjee ture-r- ■ utteMy^i^iouc evidence one way or the other having'-rio^clew either, to the man or his:, motives— »E drew from the ge'rreral principles ; : Pl^. uma iM ature a conclusion which was just J|||plausille— or .absurd if you like^-as the thaj^he motive niiust have been, Ifv'^As you., say. , we are utterly Avitfeut cvi- . dence, an d\c,on||cture drifts aimlessly from ■'. one^ thing to^other. After 4 all, .the most; pJA^gible exp|ajMJ3pn is that.of a contagion :pf>;.."ijiii||pf6n." Tsftid' this in oi'der r .to. : ,cover my ■ " pi'svisns imprudence. He wa^dtdelceiVed— though for a fe^moments I faiicied'he Avas ; '■■ but repHed Us^l^ '' '.■■>' "*;:■-.- -• 'I am not'pgr^MQd of that either. The > Avhole ; th|ng, is a^»|j-y. and I shall stay heje some.-|^^®n th^^|el^f seeiiig.it cleared up. Mea^^K^ or i?r li^J ecfc ti&kP-i™ ture, let'" -' me ; slifpi^^dUj^^iSrethirig' oif?^Hich j^dur in •genuiiy'may.^^^^^. be. empl|#|?l; ! ' 'W^ |pS?,i^ c a^y®|^ into ni^.«'Jroom. 1 . rummaging,, the ".- MWon^»oiig|Si.i|pp|^pw : . beyoiid -:< Mftubt ;thatrh:#HY^^Se|pttf|^r ? and that h|^ •'■- ■." mo^ye had ; .,.be^n ''rigiiifl.y^pibsMd ;- but with * '' th -^JSm^^^ : t}i ere^^s mingled' a seE- ; ,: v? gratiflWn^atAthe Avay I had got &&'qf im »■• dif|j^mpr,'''^|^^ ! 4cied. ■ ■ "".."; 'V>- .''Mjs tu^^^K n^f 4? S£lfc; d own-I;ndticed^ • IWlfff^lfflfe^Sl^ surtout was' fppen/ ' "-$■ wi^rje .ft|M/froc^d "and braided . • •-. cc/^Miching- to. tS 'Knees, k-as.J npAV:;tApwi .' : - f^^WUTppse :i pf conceaJing^aeMrnv^hict . / hun'gf (as l\|^d^.withere;d) > ";§^ i looked' f ttg^^H^Spfe^ii^^ ■tentiv^ly.