THE PARISH TRILOGY - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, The Seaboard Parish & The Vicar's Daughter
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George MacDonald
THE PARISH TRILOGY - Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood, The Seaboard Parish & The Vicar's Daughter
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-7583-781-3
Table of Contents
ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD
ANNALS OF A QUIET NEIGHBOURHOOD
CHAPTER I. DESPONDENCY AND CONSOLATION
CHAPTER II. MY FIRST SUNDAY AT MARSHMALLOWS
CHAPTER III. MY FIRST MONDAY AT MARSHMALLOWS
CHAPTER V. VISITORS FROM THE HALL
CHAPTER VII. THE BISHOP'S BASIN
CHAPTER XI. SERMON ON GOD AND MAMMON
CHAPTER XXI. THE DEVIL IN THOMAS WEIR
CHAPTER XXII. THE DEVIL IN CATHERINE WEIR
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DEVIL IN THE VICAR
CHAPTER XXIV. AN ANGEL UNAWARES
CHAPTER XXVII. THE MAN AND THE CHILD
CHAPTER XXVIII. OLD MRS TOMKINS
CHAPTER XXX. A SERMON TO MYSELF
CHAPTER XXXI. A COUNCIL OF FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXXIII. OLD ROGERS'S THANKSGIVING
CHAPTER I.
DESPONDENCY AND CONSOLATION.
Before I begin to tell you some of the things I have seen and heard, in both of which I have had to take a share, now from the compulsion of my office, now from the leading of my own heart, and now from that destiny which, including both, so often throws the man who supposed himself a mere on-looker, into the very vortex of events—that destiny which took form to the old pagans as a gray mist high beyond the heads of their gods, but to us is known as an infinite love, revealed in the mystery of man—I say before I begin, it is fitting that, in the absence of a common friend to do that office for me, I should introduce myself to your acquaintance, and I hope coming friendship. Nor can there be any impropriety in my telling you about myself, seeing I remain concealed behind my own words. You can never look me in the eyes, though you may look me in the soul. You may find me out, find my faults, my vanities, my sins, but you will not SEE me, at least in this world. To you I am but a voice of revealing, not a form of vision; therefore I am bold behind the mask, to speak to you heart to heart; bold, I say, just so much the more that I do not speak to you face to face. And when we meet in heaven—well, there I know there is no hiding; there, there is no reason for hiding anything; there, the whole desire will be alternate revelation and vision.
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