"In tragic life, God wot,
No villain need be! Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within."
George Meredith.
"Oh Christians, at your Cross of Hope a hopeless hand was clinging."
E. B. Browning.
"After all what would he have had to sacrifice had he followed Jesus? He would have had to give up his house in Jerusalem. He would have had to renounce society; but society would soon have forgotten him, for society has a short memory for people who for any reason have fallen out of it. That is what he would have lost, and what would he have gained? He would have had those walks with Jesus across the fields, and he would have heard Him say: 'Consider the lilies.'"—Mark Rutherford.
CHAPTER XXI
ANOTHER PORTRAIT GALLERY
Wherein the Reader is introduced to some who have failed