But your nature is not very poetical. You
are, in fact, rather prosaic, and only believe what you see. Your
judgments and views are not hasty, but just and decisive.
Now contrast all this with Lillie's immense indulgence. Whence did she
derive this if not from a sympathetic understanding of things which we
do not possess? You remember how we used to laugh when she defended some
criminal who was quite beyond defence and apology! Something intense and
far-seeking came into her expression on those occasions, and her heart
prompted some line of argument which reason could not support.
She stood all alone in her sympathy, facing us, cold and sceptical
people.
But how she must have suffered!
Then recollect the pleasure it gave her to discuss religious and
philosophical questions. She was not "religious" in the common
acceptation of the word. But she liked to get to the bottom of things,
and to use her imagination. We others were indifferent, or frankly
bored, by such matters.
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