"
"What for?" demanded the turnkey. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. Though," said the thieftaker, with a complacent smile, "all the world seems to tremble at it. The highest form of knowledge was magic: the
priesthood. Relief flooded her. Was that it? Had she
clothed this unhappy young man with glamour? Or was it because he was so
alone? She could not get through the husks to the kernel of what really actuated
her. I should have known at a glance if it was. It came to Ann Veronica that life was wonderful beyond measure. That'll tune me up. Basically a kindly man but made cynical and derisive by sordid contacts,
O'Higgins had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as unselfishness.
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