pitcher-sides

Updated: May 13, 2025

I said, cheerily, for I believed that, like Gideon's pitcher, I held dark within me the light that would discomfit his Midianites, which consciousness may well make the pitcher cheery inside, even while the light as yet is all its own worthless, till it break out upon the world, and cease to illuminate only glazed pitcher-sides "What!" I said, "working so late?" "Yes, sir."

George MacDonald - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood