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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER XVI
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We may deem it native; perhaps of its origin Aryan, but we have made it our own.

Some have been so venturesome as to trace the lordliness of Bull to the protecting smiles of the good Neptune, whose arms are about him to encourage the development of a wanton eccentricity.

Certain weeds of the human bosom are prompt to flourish where safeness would seem to be guaranteed.

Men, for instance, of stoutly independent incomes are prone to the same sort of wilfulness as Bull's, the salve abject submission to it which we behold in his tidal bodies of supporters.

Neptune has done something.


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