“Dost truly wish to know?” asked Lysken in her coolest manner.
“Certes!”
“Then—pride.”
“Pride is no sin!”
“I love not gainsaying, Blanche. But I dare in no wise gainsay the Lord. And He saith of pride, that it is an abomination unto Him, and He hateth it.” (Proverbs six, verse 16; and sixteen verse 5.)
“But that is ill and sinful pride,” urged Blanche. “There is proper pride.”
“It seemeth to my poor wits,” said Lysken, “that a thing which the Lord hateth must be all of it improper.”
“Why, Lysken! Thus saying, thou shouldst condemn all high spirit and noble bearing!”
“‘Blessed are the poor in spirit.’ There was no pride in Christ, Blanche. And thou wilt scarce say that He bare Him not nobly.”
“Why, then, we might as well all be peasants!”