[The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers CHAPTER XVII 8/22
If, as you say, it does not suit the more highly educated, I think you have no right to demand that it _should_ suit what is, after all, a very small minority.
It would be most unfair if it did." Charles did not answer.
He had been looking at her, and thinking how few women could have disagreed with him as quietly and resolutely as this young girl riding at his side, carefully avoiding chance rabbit-holes as she spoke. "There is, and there always will be, a certain number of people, not only among the clergy," she went on, "who, as somebody says, 'put the church clock back,' and are unable to see that they cannot alter the time of day for all that; only they can and do prevent many well-intentioned people from trusting to it any longer.
But there are others here and there whom a dogmatic form of religion has been quite unable to spoil, whose more simple turn of mind draws out of the very system that appears to you so lifeless and effete, a real faith, a personal possession, which no one can take from them." Her eyes sparkled as she spoke, and Charles saw that she was thinking of Mr.Alwynn. "He has got it," he said, slowly, "this something which we all want, and for the greater part never find.
He has got it.
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