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Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.
“Ah,” he said, “you may say what you like. There’s no woman like the Parisienne—for style, for go.”
She used to have such a bad opinion of Protestants but now she thought they were very nice people, a little quiet and serious, but still very nice people to live with.
“The working-man,” said Mr. Hynes, “gets all kicks and no halfpence. But it’s labour produces everything. The working-man is not looking for fat jobs for his sons and nephews and cousins. The working-man is not going to drag the honour of Dublin in the mud to please a German monarch.”
Her beliefs were not extravagant. She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments. Her faith was bounded by her kitchen, but, if she was put to it, she could believe also in the banshee and in the Holy Ghost.
“The Jesuits are a fine body of men,” said Mr. Power. “It’s a curious thing,” said Mr. Cunningham, “about the Jesuit Order. Every other order of the Church had to be reformed at some time or other but the Jesuit Order was never once reformed. It never fell away.”
Kernan, he said, we worship at different altars, he said, but our belief is the same.
Lux upon Lux—Light upon Light.”
“Allow me,” said Mr. Cunningham positively, “it was Lux upon Lux. And Pius IX his predecessor’s motto was Crux upon Crux—that is, Cross upon Cross—to show the difference between their two pontificates.”
“As the poet says: Great minds are very near to madness,” said Mr. Fogarty.
“O, of course, there were some bad lots . . . But the astonishing thing is this. Not one of them, not the biggest drunkard, not the most . . . out-and-out ruffian, not one of them ever preached ex cathedra a word of false doctrine. Now isn’t that an astonishing thing?”
“Yes, because when the Pope speaks ex cathedra,” Mr. Fogarty explained, “he is infallible.”
“Papal infallibility,” said Mr. Cunningham, “that was the greatest scene in the whole history of the Church.”
“For the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. Wherefore make unto yourselves friends out of the mammon of iniquity so that when you die they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.”
