[Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookLay Morals CHAPTER III--BAGSTER'S 'PILGRIM'S PROGRESS' 8/41
This was how he did: Hopeful is still shown to his neck above the water of death; but Christian has bodily disappeared, and a blot of solid blackness indicates his place. As you continue to look at these pictures, about an inch square for the most part, sometimes printed three or more to the page, and each having a printed legend of its own, however trivial the event recorded, you will soon become aware of two things: first, that the man can draw, and, second, that he possesses the gift of an imagination.
'Obstinate reviles,' says the legend; and you should see Obstinate reviling.
'He warily retraces his steps'; and there is Christian, posting through the plain, terror and speed in every muscle.
'Mercy yearns to go' shows you a plain interior with packing going forward, and, right in the middle, Mercy yearning to go--every line of the girl's figure yearning.
In 'The Chamber called Peace' we see a simple English room, bed with white curtains, window valance and door, as may be found in many thousand unpretentious houses; but far off, through the open window, we behold the sun uprising out of a great plain, and Christian hails it with his hand: 'Where am I now! is this the love and care Of Jesus, for the men that pilgrims are! Thus to provide! That I should be forgiven! And dwell already the next door to heaven!' A page or two further, from the top of the House Beautiful, the damsels point his gaze toward the Delectable Mountains: 'The Prospect,' so the cut is ticketed--and I shall be surprised, if on less than a square inch of paper you can show me one so wide and fair.
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