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 precarious existence, while the remaining one wallows in all the redundancies of luxury, that can be wrung from their labours and privations; that luxury and liberty are incompatible; and that every new want you invent for civilized man is a new instrument of torture for him who cannot indulge it.

They had now regained the shores of the lake, when the conversation was suddenly interrupted by a tremendous explosion, followed by a violent splashing of water, and various sounds of tumult and confusion, which induced them to quicken their pace towards the spot whence they proceeded.