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. 1898 Excerpt: ...the least degree rude, or even embarrassing; it was rather as though he strove to read my character, not by what I said, but by endeavouring to penetrate to that hidden meaning which lies buried in the depths of the human eye. His visit did not last long, nor did he talk very much. His conversation gave you the ...
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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. 1898 Excerpt: ...the least degree rude, or even embarrassing; it was rather as though he strove to read my character, not by what I said, but by endeavouring to penetrate to that hidden meaning which lies buried in the depths of the human eye. His visit did not last long, nor did he talk very much. His conversation gave you the impression of a man who deliberates well upon what he is about to utter before speaking. Yet from a few of the remarks he let drop I collected that he had evidently been making inquiries concerning myself, and was acquainted with more particulars of my history than he was likely to have picked up in mere casual chatter..And I remember thinking, as I watched him hobbling away down the garden, that if the Rev. Ashley Maxwell chose to devote himself to a purpose he was not a man to easily allow himself to be balked by difficulties in the fulfilment of it. He was one of those characters endowed by Nature with that power of will necessary to dominate, for where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails. A cold, calculating exterior is far more irresistible when backed by the stern qualities of an inexorable mind than the eager imperiousness of the evanescent resolution. The next occasion of my seeing Mr. Maxwell was upon the following Sunday. He preached his maiden sermon in the quaint, hoary old Norman parish church, and deep was the impression which it made upon his congregation. To begin with, his text was a somewhat remarkable one, I recollect, taken from the eleventh chapter of the Book of Proverbs: 'As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.' His keen, basilisk-like eye fell upon me almost as soon as he had mounted into the pulpit, and whilst he twice slowly and deliberately repeated th...
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