Look at the numbers."
"That is no test of my real influence over the boys. I teach them,
I keep them in external order, but I do not get into them. The
religious life is at a low ebb."
"No wonder, with that vicar; but you have done your best."
"Even if my attempts are a layman's best, they always get quenched by
the cold water of the Rigby element. It is hard for boys to feel the
reality of what is treated with such business-like indifference, and
set forth so feebly, not to say absurdly."
"I know. It is a terrible disadvantage."
"Listening to Rigby, has, I must say, done a good deal to bring about
my present intention."
"By force of contradiction."
"If that means of longing to be in his place and put the thing as it
ought to be put."
"It is a contradiction in which I most sincerely rejoice, David," she
said; "one of the wishes of my heart fulfilled when I had given it
up."
"You do not know that it will be fulfilled."
"I think it will, though you are right to take time, in case the
decision should be partly due to disappointment."
"If there can be disappointment where hope has never existed. But if
a man finds he can't have his great good, it may make him look for
the greater."
Mary sighed a mute and thankful acquiescence.
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