[The King’s Cup-Bearer by Amy Catherine Walton]@TWC D-Link bookThe King’s Cup-Bearer CHAPTER IX 2/12
Look at his broad forehead, his quick eager eye, his earnest face.
That man is the strongest man in England: strong, not in bodily strength, he would do but little on the football field, nor could he win a single prize in athletic sports; he is a thin, slight, fragile man, but he is strong in mind, powerful and mighty in brain.
That man's memory is simply perfect, his powers of reasoning are faultless, his grasp of a subject is enormous, he is a giant in intellect. Here then we have another kind of strength, mental strength; and inasmuch as the mind is vastly superior to the body, and inasmuch as power of mind is a power which the animals so far from rivalling man, possess only in a very limited degree, we shall be ready to admit that the student is stronger than Samson, because he is strong in a superior kind of strength. But there is a stronger than he, and it is a woman.
She is weak and delicate, and has certainly no bodily strength; she knows very little, for she is a poor, simple country girl; she has no mental strength, but she is stronger than Samson, stronger than the Cambridge student, because she is endued with a strength far superior to bodily or mental strength--she is strong in soul. A great crowd of people was gathered on the shore that day in the county of Wigton in Scotland.
There lay the wooded hills and the heathery moors, and the quiet sea dividing them like a peaceful lake.
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