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A moment before he had been dying alone. Now he was living in the same world with a man; an inexhaustible ecstasy.
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"You are not going the right way to work, Sir," he said, with severity. "You are not going the right way to work to—a—have your case treated with special consideration. If you had simply expressed regret for what you had done, I should have been strongly inclined to dismiss the matter as an outbreak of temper. Even now, if you say that you are sorry I shall only——" "But I am not in the least sorry," said Evan, "I am very pleased." "I really believe you are insane," said the stipendiary, indignantly, for he had really been doing his best as a good-natured man, to compose the dispute. "What
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"Well, we won't quarrel about a word," said the other, pleasantly. "Why on earth not?" said MacIan, with a sudden asperity. "Why shouldn't we quarrel about a word?
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Free-thought can never be progressive. It can never be progressive because it will accept nothing from the past; it begins every time again from the beginning; and it goes every time in a different direction.
A black dot in the distance sprang up a tall black forest, swallowed them and spat them out again at the other end.
Evan's thoughts, that had been piled up to the morning star, abruptly let him down with a crash into the very cellars of the emotional universe.
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"Will they let me see her in heaven once in a thousand ages?"
I'll not fight foul for all the girls and angels in the universe."
"The cross cannot be defeated," said MacIan, "for it is Defeat."
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But surely if you are daring to try and find God beyond the grave and appeal to Him—you ought to let Him find you when He comes and stands there every morning in our little church."
