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Prisoners

CHAPTER XI
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When he remembered his wife's face he realised that her joy had been something beyond his ken.

He had not shared it.

He had not known love, even when it had drawn very nigh unto him.
As he waited motionless for Wentworth to come in, his strong, intrepid mind worked.

The Bishop at fifty went to school to a new thought.

It was that power of going to school at fifty to a new thought which had made his Archbishop, who loved him, give him the See of Lostford, to the amazement of the demurer clergy who were scandalised by his unconventionality, and his fearful baldness of speech.


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