And then his heart trembled as he considered that Philippe, a man of peace, almost a priest, an apostle of Christianity, had gone to his Maker with the sin of anger on his soul.
It was horrible.

Yet God would see the righteousness of that anger.

And in no case--be man's interpretation of Divinity what it might--could that one sin outweigh the loving good that Philippe had ever practised, the noble purity of his great heart.

God after all, reflected Andre-Louis, was not a grand-seigneur..