4/9 I am the galled jade whose withers are wrung." "Body and spirit both bruised ?" said the Surgeon, half reflectively. "Yes," he said, rather defiantly. "In addition to desiring to serve my country, I want to vindicate my manhood from some aspersions which have been cast upon it." "Quite a fair showing of motives. Better, perhaps, than usual, when a careful weighing of the relative proportions of self-esteem, self-interest and higher impulses is made." "I am free to say that the discouragements I have met with are very different, and perhaps much greater than I contemplated. |