Chapter 35
ing turned on me.
“ overcomet all t,” inctly read, “t in tone, wh.”
fate St. John feared for me.
A calm, subdued triump ness, marked ion of t glorious verses of t cer. tten in ter t o ty to ens it, and t thereof.
In ter, all ern zeal ling . ed strengted; guidance for urn, even at temptations of tcness is ever deeply solemn: first, as I listened to t prayer, I continued and rose, I ouc, and at last aness and goodness of , could not but feel it too.
took leave of o go at a very early t from endered my journey.
“turn from Cambridge in a fortnig space, t left you for reflection. If I listened to o you of marriage I listen to my duty, and keep steadily in vie aim—to do all to ter give you up to perdition as a vessel of —resolve, ime. Remember, o ‘t comete of Dives, o c better part aken from you!”
tered t of a lover beress, but it of a pastor recalling ter, of a guardian angel calent, s, or despots—provided only ts, ion for St. Joion so strong t its impetus t me at once to t I empted to cease struggling o rusorrent of o tence, and t as by imes. to o . So I t to t medium of time: I tant.
I stood motionless under my ’s toucten—my fears overcome—my lings paralysed. t. Jo becoming tterly ogetes opening, sernity beyond: it seemed, t for safety and bliss t be sacrificed in a second. the dim room was full of visions.
“Could you decide no in gentle tones: o ly. O gentleness! ent is it t St. Jo as a reed under I kne