Excerpt: ... an instant Monsignor almost gave way. He felt himself on the point of breaking out into a burst of protest against the whole affair-of denouncing the horror and loathing that during these last days had steadily grown within him-a horror that so far he had succeeded in keeping to himself. Then once more he crushed it down, and stood up for fear his resolution should give way. "I will do what I can, my lord," he said coldly. (III) A great restlessness seized upon the man who had lost his memory that night. He had ...
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Excerpt: ... an instant Monsignor almost gave way. He felt himself on the point of breaking out into a burst of protest against the whole affair-of denouncing the horror and loathing that during these last days had steadily grown within him-a horror that so far he had succeeded in keeping to himself. Then once more he crushed it down, and stood up for fear his resolution should give way. "I will do what I can, my lord," he said coldly. (III) A great restlessness seized upon the man who had lost his memory that night. He had thought after his return from abroad that things were well with him again-that he had learned the principles of this world that was so strange to him; and his busy days-all that had to be done and recovered, and his success in doing it-these things at once distracted and soothed him. And now once more he was back in his bewilderment. One great principle it was which confused his whole outlook-the employment of force upon the side of Christianity. Here, on the large scale, was the forcible repression of the Socialists; on a small scale, the punishment of a heretic. What kind of religion was this that preached gentleness and practised violence? . . . Between eleven and twelve o'clock he could bear it no longer. The house was quiet, and the lights for the most part gone out. He took his hat and thin cloak, throwing this round him so as to hide the purple at his throat, went softly down the corridors and stairs, and let himself out noiselessly into Ambrosden Avenue. He felt he must have air and space: he was beginning almost to hate this silent, well-ordered ecclesiastical house, where wheels ran so smoothly, so inexorably, and so effectively. He came out presently into Victoria Street and turned westwards. He did not notice much as he went. Only his most superficial faculties paid attention to the great quiet lighted thoroughfare, to the few figures that moved along, to the scattered sentinels of the City of Westminster police in...
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