why they had allowed him to accept failure so stolidly at an age when most men are still struggling
Only old Catherine Mingott, with her absence of moral prejudices and almost parvenu indifference to the subtler distinctions
had led her to consider Mr. van der Luyden’s least gesture as having an almost sacerdotal importance.
i knew it was something religious
he did not know that the experience he has put me through, all those times, in all those years, is the one I’ve adumbrated, for a few hours, from time to time, just now?
While there’s nothing wrong with the miraculous, it always requires an abrogation of the law in one’s own special case
