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"With no superiority of intellect, yet by the force of love, by sweet piety, by tender compassion, by coming down to the lowly, by unselfishness and simplicity of life, by a constant sense of God's Presence, by devout exercises, private and social, she achieved much of Christian saintliness and much of human happiness. "She has left a large void in her husband's heart. "Obiit, 16th July, 1876."
"You were criticizing the woman psychology of my heroine, I believe," he said calmly, lifting the neglected manuscript in his one good hand. "What's wrong with her?" "She's mid-Victorian. She's not modern," ruled the critic. "Her virtue is just a sugary saintliness that doesn't ring true. Any real woman in her circumstances would feel more disgraced by her marriage than by a divorce."
But now should my guests be merry, the house is in holiday guise, Looking out through its burnished windows like a score of welcoming eyes. Come hither, my brothers who wander in saintliness and in sin! Come hither, ye pilgrims of Nature! my heart doth invite you in.
As a man he was so exquisitely worldly that he fully merited the name of the Heavenly Worldling bestowed on him by an admiring duchess, and withal his texture was shot with a pattern of such genuine saintliness that one felt that whoever else might hold the keys of Paradise he, at least, possessed a private latchkey to that abode.
Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman." "You have done much good," I said; for she was noted for her liberal almsgiving. "I have not withheld money, you mean, where it could assuage affliction. What of that? It cost me no effort or pang to give.
In preaching power he was not equal to Whitefield; in saintliness of character he was surpassed by Fletcher; in poetical talent he was inferior to his brother; in solid learning he was, perhaps, not equal to his friend and disciple Adam Clarke. But no one man combined all these characteristics in so remarkable a degree as John Wesley; and he possessed others besides these which were all his own.
Faith looked at him quickly and could see a sneer on his face. It was plain that he had no special respect for saintliness. When she reached her department she found every one talking excitedly, and, of course, Miss Brady's arrest was the topic of conversation. "Here she comes! here comes Mag's rival!" cried Miss Jones, when she saw Faith coming.
"We enjoy it all very much," Emily answered, adding imploringly, "please don't call her a little half-breed woman. She's such a dear little thing, Lady Maria." Lady Maria indulged in the familiar chuckle and put up her lorgnette to examine her again. "There's a certain kind of early Victorian saintliness about you, Emily Walderhurst, which makes my joy," she said.
Theresa's saintliness will doubtless be shocking to the people who think they are pious, we take an optimistic view of it, and suggest that the saint's idea of religion is far more satisfying than that usually presented as saintliness. St. Theresa, like most of the female saints, became "the bride of Christ" the man Jesus, the Christ, let it be remembered. St.
"Oh, not saintly, I think," protested Mrs. Randal charitably. "Saintly people are so uninteresting." The Major laughed. He was already on his feet. "Probably not probably not. But a show of saintliness is more than enough to frighten me away. A woman who can't understand a wink I invariably strike forthwith off my visiting-list." "How cruel of you!" laughed Mrs. Randal.
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