"It is not my fault that I cannot eat or rest," he replied. "I assure you it is through no settled designs. I'll do both, as soon as I possibly can. But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water rest within arms' length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest. Well, never mind Mr. Green: as to repenting of my injustices, I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself."

'It is not my fault that I cannot eat or rest,' he replied. 'I'll do both, as soon as I can. But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water to rest within arms' length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest. Well, never mind Mr. Green: as to injustice, I've done none, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.'
