25/48 He felt with me and for me--for my horror of giving pain to my father, and for my wearied and excited state of mind; and strangely enough--to show how differently, according to the difference of the organs, the same object may appear to two people--he quoted in my favour that very verse which you wrest against me. He wished me to show my father that I had only changed my heaven, and not my character, by becoming an Ultramontane- Catholic. that, as far as his esteem and affection were founded on anything in me, the ground of it did not vanish with my conversion. |