human
David, you don't mind staying over for a day?
gpt
Oh no, not at all. I meant to.
human
And you don't mind--seeing Elizabeth?
gpt
I want to see her. Will he be there?
human
Blair? No! Certainly not. It wouldn't be pleasant for--for--
gpt
For him? David said, dryly.
human
I should think not. Still, I am sorry. I have rather a curiosity to see Blair.
gpt
Oh, David!
human
My dear mother, don't be alarmed. I have no intention of calling him out. I am merely interested to know how a sneak-thief looks when he meets-- he laughed;
gpt
Well! he said, aloud, violently,
human
He lit a cigar and sat down, his legs stretched out in front of him, his feet crossed. He sat there for an hour, biting on his extinguished cigar. Then he said in an unsteady voice,
gpt
She is a heavenly creature. The vigil in his library, which lasted until the dawn was white above Mercer's smoke, left Robert Ferguson shaken to the point of humility. He no longer combated Mrs. Maitland's wandering words; they did not matter. What mattered was the divine discovery that they did not matter! Or rather, that they opened his eyes to the glory of the human soul. To a man of his narrow and obstinate council of perfection, the realization, not only that it was possible to enter into holiness through the door of sin--that low door that bows the head that should be upright--but that his own possibilities of tenderness were wider than he knew,--such a realization was conversion. It was the recognition that in the matter of forgiveness he and his Father were one. Helena might or might not
human
If she had, then it proved that she in her humility was a better woman than, with nothing on his conscience, he in his arrogance was a man; and when he said that, he began to understand, with shame, that in regard to other people's wrong-doing he had always been, as Sarah Maitland expressed it,
gpt
He thought of her words now, and his lean face reddened.
human
She hit me when she said that. I've always set up my own Ebenezer. What a fool I must have seemed to a woman like Helena. . . . She's a heavenly creature! he ended, brokenly;