And then:
“That is my friend’s story,” he said, “Do you not think it remarkable?”
“Saint Bernard speaks of the words of Job that he says: ‘Abscondit lucem in manibus’ (that is to say, ‘God has light hid in His hands’)––‘Thou wot well, he that has a candle a-light between his hands, he may hide it and shew it at his own will. So does our Lord to His chosen.’”
The Abbey of the Holy Ghost.
Unto Babes
A few days after the conversation I have described my visit to the old man came to an end, and my work drew me back to London; but I left behind me a promise to return and spend Christmas at his house. He in the meantime would, he promised me, try to put together some other stories for me against the time that I should return. There were many others, he said, that he had come across in his life which he hoped would interest me, besides a few more personal experiences of his own.