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Excerpt from Prisoners of the Tower of London: Being an Account of Some Who at Divers Times Lay Captive, Within Its Walls
When Geoffrey sets his heart on my doing a thing, it generally ends In his getting his way. For one thing, it is very hard to resist his coaxing voice and his persuasive powers, and then his way and my way are so very Often the same. Because though there is thirty years and more between us, we both look out on life from a point Of view very sympathetic to each other. We are both of us prone to be hero-wor shippers, rather than Cool critics Of Character. We both Of us get weary Of schemes and systems, periods and theories, and we love intensely men and women, as men and women in the moments Of their humiliation as well as in the hour of their greatness. And loving them thus, we like to follow them through all those strangely varied and often inconsistent actions which, pieced together, make up that complex thing a human life, only to be fully understood by the One who holds in His hands the tangled threads.
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When Geoffrey sets his heart on my doing a thing, it generally ends In his getting his way. For one thing, it is very hard to resist his coaxing voice and his persuasive powers, and then his way and my way are so very Often the same. Because though there is thirty years and more between us, we both look out on life from a point Of view very sympathetic to each other. We are both of us prone to be hero-wor shippers, rather than Cool critics Of Character. We both Of us get weary Of schemes and systems, periods and theories, and we love intensely men and women, as men and women in the moments Of their humiliation as well as in the hour of their greatness. And loving them thus, we like to follow them through all those strangely varied and often inconsistent actions which, pieced together, make up that complex thing a human life, only to be fully understood by the One who holds in His hands the tangled threads.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Violet Brooke-Hunt
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ISBN - 9780266216889
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Page Count - 425
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Author
Violet Brooke-Hunt
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ISBN - 9781331708605
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Page Count - 427
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