This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...upon bad and good alike? Is it not really a higher use of one's moral perceptions?' and she looked into his face with the witchery of her wonderfully brilliant smile. " I do not know. I confess you bewilder me. I shall have to go home and try to analyze what you have said, and see of what it is made. I have a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...upon bad and good alike? Is it not really a higher use of one's moral perceptions?' and she looked into his face with the witchery of her wonderfully brilliant smile. " I do not know. I confess you bewilder me. I shall have to go home and try to analyze what you have said, and see of what it is made. I have a lingering fear that sophistry and self-indulgence are not altogether absent from the position you defend, and yet you have made me see things from your point of view." He had risen now to go, and she stood facing him before the fireplace. " And you will not say again that you have made a blunder in coming to us?" she asked, looking wistfully at him, and holding out both her hands. He took them in his and looked down into her face, his own much moved. " It could not be a blunder to come where you led me, ' he said. ' Perhaps--I do not know--I could not choose but follow, ' and with that he was gone. Stephanie, standing alone, as the house door shut, clasped her hands together and her eyes flashed with a sudden light, unlike the pleading softness which had just now been in them. " He, too, is a man," she whispered to herself with something like exultation; " even he, at last, is human!" CHAPTER IX I have stifled more than one nascent love. Why? Because, with that prophetic certainty which belongs to moral intuition, I felt it lacking in true life, and less durable than myself. I choked it down in the name of the supreme affection to come. The loves of sense, of imagination, of sentiment--I have seen through and rejected them all; I sought the love which springs from the central profundities of being. Amiel. years have passed since Stephen Castle became pastor of the Church of All G-ood Spirits, and on an evening in early spring ve find him in a...
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