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Margret Howth
A Story of To-day

CHAPTER V
19/63

Of course you go on with the conjugation: I have been, I shall be.

I,--that covers the whole ground, creation, redemption, and commands the hereafter ?" "It does so," said Holmes, coolly.
"And this wretched huckster carries her deity about her,--her self-existent soul?
How, in God's name, is her life to set it free ?" Holmes said nothing.

The coarse sneer could not be answered.

Men with pale faces and heavy jaws like his do not carry their religion on their tongue's end; their creeds leave them only in the slow oozing life-blood, false as the creeds may be.
Knowles went on hotly, half to himself, seizing on the new idea fiercely, as men and women do who are yet groping for the truth of life.
"What is it your Novalis says?
'The true Shechinah is man.' You know no higher God?
Pooh! the idea is old enough; it began with Eve.

It works slowly, Holmes.


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