<span>Think of this first: Would any sane man prefer Power, with all a king’s anxieties, to that same power and the grace of sleep?</span>
shipping off Oliver Twist, in some small trading vessel bound to a good unhealthy port.
<span>....probability being, that the skipper would flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or would knock his brains out with an iron bar; both pastimes being, as is pretty generally known, very favourite and common recreations among gentleman of that class.</span>
Its were someone is so excited and feels good.
For the first one its as in for the past, like if you did do something. so i believe its the last one if im not mistaken
sorry if its wrong !!
On god?? What else did it say