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Updated: May 2, 2025
But never may the rude assault of hearts Self-blinded, or the autocratic pride Of Reason, by no hallowing faith subdued, One lock of glory from Her rev'rend head Succeed in tearing: Love, and Awe, and Truth Her doctrines preach, with apostolic force: Her creed is Unity, her head is Christ, Her Forms primeval, and her Creed divine, And Catholic, that crowning name she wears."
All the ideals of her self-blinded life were being swept away in the glaring flame of reality. Thornton was still infatuated and went to great lengths to prove to his pale, starry-eyed wife her power over him.
He had come at last, Baalzebub, God of flies, and of what flies are bred from; to visit his self-blinded worshippers, and bestow on them his own Cross of the Legion of Dishonour. He had come suddenly, capriciously, sportively, as he sometimes comes; as he had come to Newcastle the summer before, while yet the rest of England was untouched.
The power that Mr. Muir had acquired mainly by practice Madge possessed by nature. As we have seen, she was quite free from that most unwomanly phase of stupidity which is often due to the heart rather than the head. Some women know what is told them if it is told plainly; others look into the eyes of those around them and see what is sought to be concealed. The selfish woman is self-blinded.
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