l the pent-up excitement of her humiliating walk would have its vent before she could say more.
“Do tell me everything,” Dr. Kenn said, with quiet kindness in his grave, firm voice. “Think of me as one to whom a long experience has been granted, which may enable him to help you.”
In rather broken sentences, and with some effort at first, but soon with the greater ease that came from a sense of relief in the confidence, Maggie told the brief story of a struggle that must be the beginning of a long sorrow. Only the day before, Dr. Kenn had been made acquainted with the contents of Stephen’s letter, and he had believed them at once, without the confirmation of Maggie’s Aaron Ekblad Jersey statement. That involuntary plaint of hers, “Oh, I must go,” had remained with him as the sign that she was Carl Hagelin Jersey undergoing some inward conflict.
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“Your prompting to go to your nearest friends — to remain where all the ties of your life have been formed — is a true prompting, to which the Church in its original constitution and discipline responds, opening its arms to the penitent, watching over its children to the last; Danny Gare Jersey never abandoning them until they are hopelessly reprobate. And the Chris Kelly Jersey Church ought to represent the feeling of the community, so that every parish should be a family knit together by Christian Salomon Fell Raiser Kengät brotherhood under a spiritual father. But the ideas of discipline and Christian fraternity are entirely relaxed — they can hardly Mitchell Stephens Jersey be said to exist in the public mind; they hardly survive except in the partial, contradictory form Belstaff Knockhill Kurtki they have taken in the narrow communities of schismatics; and if I were Martin Havlat Jersey not supported by the firm faith that the Church must ultimately recover the full force of that constitution which is alone fitted Krótkiy Yd to human needs, I should often lose heart at observing the Jean Beliveau Jersey want of fellowship and sense of mutual responsibility among my Mesh Polo own flock. At present everything seems tending toward the relaxation of ties — toward the substitution of wayward choice for the adherence to obligation, which has its roots in the past. Your conscience and your heart have given you true light on this point, Miss Tulliver; and I have said all this that you may know what my wish about you — what my advice to you — would be, if they sprang from my own feeling and opinion unmodified by counteracting circumstances.”
Dr. Kenn paused a little while. There was an entire absence of effusive benevolence in his manner; there was something almost cold in the gravity of his look and voice. If Maggie had not known that his benevolence was persevering in proportion to its reserve, she might have been chilled and frightened. As it was, she listened expectantly, qlinks:
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