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Talking with her, you saw, as in a divine kaleidoscope, the gleams and shiftings and combinings of heavenly and internal things; shown in simplest movings and relations of most real and every day experience and incident. But she never went on and "went over," exhorting. She did not believe in discourses, she said, even from the pulpit very much. She believed in a sermon, and letting it go.
Who will mate them, and re-arrange their inharmonious combinings? She tried to tear a few asunder. She could not separate them, for they were held so firmly by the thick slime of the sea, that no hand could disunite them. 'They must go back, and be washed again and again by the waves, a voice within seemed to say, 'on eternity's broad shore they will all be mated.
For my part, the more stories I write out, the more I learn how, even in fiction, things happen and take relation according to some hidden reality; that we have only to stand by, and see the shiftings and combinings, and with what care and honesty we may, to put them down.
'Why? inquired Quilp, without looking up. 'Why, you know, sir, returned Brass, venturing to be more familiar: the fact is, sir, that any allusion to these little combinings together, of friends, for objects in themselves extremely laudable, but which the law terms conspiracies, are you take me, sir? best kept snug and among friends, you know.
Do I know anything about your combinings? 'No no, sir certainly not; not by any means, returned Brass. 'If you so wink and nod at me, said the dwarf, looking about him as if for his poker, 'I'll spoil the expression of your monkey's face, I will. 'Don't put yourself out of the way I beg, sir, rejoined Brass, checking himself with great alacrity. 'You're quite right, sir, quite right.
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