And yet, for all the majesty of the creations of brilliant men, he felt, this moment, that he had never seen anything so masterful, so complete, so elegant as the unity of this little poor family in this nondescript home in Camden Town. His entire life, he had marveled with disapproval at how the destitute allowed life to assault them. Yet this, here, this alone was life! This was the heartbeat for which the rest of the world existed.
