[A Honeymoon in Space by George Griffith]@TWC D-Link bookA Honeymoon in Space CHAPTER XIII 19/21
They've taken us into their palaces, they've given us, as one might say, the whole planet.
Everything was ours that we liked to take.
You know we have two or three hundredweight of precious stones on board now, which they would make me take just because they saw my rings. "We've been living with them ten days now, and neither you nor I, nor even Murgatroyd, who, like the old Puritan that he is, seems to see sin or wrong in everything that looks nice, has seen a single sign among them that they know anything about what we call sin or wrong on Earth. There's no jealousy, no selfishness.
In short, no envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness; no vice, or meanness, or cheating, or any of the abominations of the planet Terra, and _we come from that planet_.
Do you see what I mean now ?" "I think I understand what you're driving at," said Redgrave; "you mean, I suppose, that this world is something like Eden before the fall, and that you and I--oh--but that's all rubbish you know.
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