is not a thing demanding a scenic lofty a palatial stage
whereon to play its part. Away down
among upon the groundlings, among the beggars
and rakers of the garbage, profound passion profound passion it is enacted.
And the circumstances that provoke it,
however trivial or mean, contemptable, are no
measure of its power. In the present
instance the stage is a ship's scrubbed deck, gun-deck,
outward and one of the external provocations the matter a sailor's man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.
Now when the Master-at-arms
noticed whence came that greasy fluid liquid?
streaming before his feet, he must
have taken it—to some extent
wilfully, perhaps-- and welcoming it Passion, and passion in its profoundest,
is not a thing demanding a scenic lofty a palatial stage
whereon to play its part. Away down
among upon the groundlings, among the beggars
and rakers of the garbage, profound passion profound passion it is enacted.
And the circumstances that provoke it,
however trivial or mean, contemptable, are no
measure of its power. In the present
instance the stage is a ship's scrubbed deck, gun-deck,
outward and one of the external provocations the matter a sailor's man-of-war's-man's spilled soup.
Now when the Master-at-arms
noticed whence came that greasy fluid liquid?
streaming before his feet, he must
have taken it—to some extent
wilfully, perhaps-- and welcoming it Passion, and passion in its profoundest,
Transcribed by: John Bryant