[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER XVII 25/30
'Tis the necessity of the profession.' 'The profession will not impose that necessity upon me,' remarked the young practitioner. 'Outside the wheels of the machine, sir, we indulge our hallucination of immunity.
I've been one in the whirr of them, relating what I hadn't quite heard, and capitulating what I didn't think at all, in spite of the cry of my conscience--a poor infant below the waters, casting up ejaculatory bubbles of protestation.
And if it is my reproach that I left it to the perils of drowning, it's my pride that I continued to transmit air enough to carry on the struggle.
Not every journalist can say as much.
The Press is the voice of the mass, and our private opinion is detected as a discord by the mighty beast, and won't be endured by him.' 'It's better not to think of him quite as a beast,' said Mr.Colesworth. 'Infinitely better: and I like your "guile," sir: But wait and tell me what you think of him after tossing him his meat for a certain number of years.
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