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Updated: May 12, 2025
"How in the name of Heaven," said he, "did you conceive this scheme of converting this woman?" "She has a soul to be saved, and it's quite saveable," answered the nun tartly. "The more hopeless from man's view, the more likely from God's. I have a taste for hopeless enterprises." "I wish you had left Louis out of this one," Arthur thought.
"If I pull this one out of the fire, I won't be a general; I'll be a magician," he said. "Pickering'll be a magician, I mean; he's the boy who'll save our bacon, if it's saveable." He looked somberly across the flame-reflecting water. "Let's not kid ourselves; we're just kicking and biting at the guards on the way up the gallows-steps." "Well, why stop till the trap's sprung?" she asked.
He had come to be conscious through it all of strangely glaring at people when they tried to haggle and not, as formerly, with the glare of derisive comment on their overdone humour, but with that of fairly idiotised surrender as if they were much mistaken in supposing, for the sake of conversation, that he might take himself for saveable by the difference between sevenpence and ninepence.
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