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Updated: May 6, 2025
The Prophet blinked with amazement, like a martyr who suddenly finds himself snatched from the rack and laid upon a plush divan with a satin cushion under his head. "I'm going to trust you," Lady Enid went on, emphasising the two pronouns. "Many thanks," said the Prophet, unoriginally. She was sitting on a square piece of furniture which the Marquis of Glome called an "Aberdeen lean-to."
There is therefore a secret glome or bottom of our days; it was his wisdom to determine them, but his perpetual and waking providence that fulfils and accomplishes them; wherein the spirits, ourselves, and all the creatures of God in a secret and disputed way do execute His will.
When he reached the dark green mansion of Lady Enid's worthy father, the Marquis of Glome, and had applied the bronze demon that served as a knocker four separate times to the door, he was still so lost in thought that he started violently on the appearance of the Scotch retainer at the portal, and behaved for a moment as if he were considering which of two courses he should pursue: i.e., whether he should clamber frantically into the seclusion of the area, or take boldly to the open street.
This bundle and that glome are felt by man only as one delight; and as the delight of evil in externals assumes a semblance of the delight of good, as we have said, therefore also the delight of adultery assumes a semblance of the delight of marriage; but after death, when everyone lays aside externals, and the internals are laid bare, then it manifestly appears, that the evil of adultery is a glome of the concupiscences of evil, and the good of marriage is a bundle of the affections of good: thus that they are entirely opposed to each other.
And in my family, with the Chieftain, the provocation you can understand is exceptionally great." The Marquis of Glome, who was the head of a clan called "The MacArdells," was always named the Chieftain by his relations and friends. "I felt sure it must be," said the Prophet, decisively.
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