Chapter 29
SOME EXPLANATIONS--A HUMAN APPETITE--A DINNER AND A BONNE BOUCHE. The brigadier and myself remained behind to discuss the general bearings of this unexpected event. "Your rigid demand for motives, my good sir," I remarked, "reduces the Leaplow political morality very much, after all, to the level of the social-stake system of our part of the world." "They both depend on the crutch of personal Interests, it is true; though there is, between them, the difference of the interests of a part and of the interests of the whole." "And could a part act less commendably than the whole appear to have acted in this instance?" "You forget that Leaplow, just at this moment, is under a moral eclipse. I shall not say that these eclipses do not occur often, but they occur quite as frequently i
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