I like the complexities and contradictions in his character.

Take for instance all that strange and picturesque episode of Hagar: see the splendid contrast between the craft and commercial guile of his dealings in Egypt and with Abimelech, and the simple, straightforward godliness of his later years.

No, all those difficulties only attract me.

Do you happen to know--of course you would know--do those German books, or the others, give anywhere any additional details of the man himself and his sayings and doings--little things which help, you know, to round out one's conception of the individual ?" Again the priest and the doctor stole a furtive glance across the young minister's head.

It was Father Forbes who replied.
"I fear that you are taking our friend Abraham too literally, Mr.Ware," he said, in that gentle semblance of paternal tones which seemed to go so well with his gown.