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Roderick Hudson

CHAPTER IX
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"It 's sublimer than anything that your religion asks you to do!" he exclaimed.
"Surely our religion sometimes gives us very difficult duties," said Miss Garland.
"The duty of sitting in a whitewashed meeting-house and listening to a nasal Puritan! I admit that 's difficult.

But it 's not sublime.

I am speaking of ceremonies, of forms.

It is in my line, you know, to make much of forms.

I think this is a very beautiful one.


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