Part 25 (1/2)
”And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error I believe it was an inspiration rather than a te--I know that Here it coain! It is no devil, I assure you; or if it be, it has put on the robes of an angel of light I think I uest when it asks entrance to el”
”Once more, how do you know? By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a uide and a seducer?”
”I judged by your countenance, sir, which was troubled when you said the suggestion had returned upon you I feel sure it ork you more misery if you listen to it”
”Not at all--it bears the e in the world: for the rest, you are not my conscience-keeper, so don't make yourself uneasy
Here, come in, bonny wanderer!”
He said this as if he spoke to a vision, viewless to any eye but his own; then, folding his arms, which he had half extended, on his chest, he see
”Now,” he continued, again addressing uised deity, as I verily believe Already it has done ood: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine”
”To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of ood as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own i I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve; and that if frohts and actions, you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections, to which you htly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this y”
”Sir?”
”I aood intentions, which I believe durable as flint
Certainly, my associates and pursuits shall be other than they have been”
”And better?”
”And better--so much better as pure ore is than foul dross You seem to doubt me; I don't doubt myself: I knohat my aim is, what my motives are; and at this moment I pass a law, unalterable as that of the Medes and Persians, that both are right”
”They cannot be, sir, if they require a new statute to legalise theh they absolutely require a new statute: unheard-of combinations of circuerous maxim, sir; because one can see at once that it is liable to abuse”
”Sententious sage! so it is: but I swear by my household Gods not to abuse it”
”You are human and fallible”
”I am: so are you--what then?”
”The huate a pohich the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted”
”What power?”
”That of saying of any strange, unsanctioned line of action,--'Let it be right'”