15/20 But she's clean both in body and in spirit, as I believe, and say before my God. I--what I'd pray for is, to see this girl safe. That is, to the man who will--won't be ashamed--marry her, I mean!" The tide of his harshness failed him here, and he began to pick his words, now feeble, now emphatic, but alike wanting in natural expression, for he had reached a point of emotion upon the limits of his nature, and he was now wilfully forcing for misery and humiliation right and left, in part to show what a black star Providence had been over him. |