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The phrase "intoxicated with pleasure," too common in our literature, / would most inexactly describe the condition of George Mulross Demaine / as he left the Prime Minister's room upon that Monday midnight.
In the first place he was not and never had been intoxicated, and even / when he exceeded (as in youth he frequently had) in the matter of wine, / spirits, liqueurs and fancy liquids, the effect of such excess had / rather been atrophy than intoxication. Nor had he ever felt what poets / finely call the "sting of joy."