CHAPTER THE SECOND – THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY
CHAPTER THE THIRD – INSOMNIA
CHAPTER THE FOURTH – THE SYMPATHY OF LADY SUNDERBUND
CHAPTER THE FIFTH – THE FIRST VISION
CHAPTER THE SIXTH – EXEGETICAL
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH – THE SECOND VISION
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH – THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER THE NINTH – THE THIRD VISION
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IT was only in the last few years that the bishop had experienced these nervous and mental crises. He was a belated doubter. Whatever questionings had marked his intellectual adolescence had either been very slight or had been too adequately answered to leave any serious scars upon his convictions.
And even now he felt that he was afflicted physically rather than mentally, that some protective padding of nerve-sheath or brain-case had worn thin and weak, and left him a prey to strange disturbances, rather than that any new process of thought was eating into his mind. These doubts in his mind were still not really doubts; they were rather alien and, for the first time, uncontrolled movements of his intelligence. He had had a sheltered upbringing; he was the well-connected son of a comfortable rectory, the only son and sole survivor of a family of three; he had been carefully instructed and he had been a willing learner; it had been easy and natural to take many things for granted. It had been very easy and pleasant for him to take the world as he found it and God as he found Him. Indeed for all his years up to manhood he had been able to take life exactly as in his infancy he took his carefully warmed and prepared bottle – unquestioningly and beneficially.
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“Where had she been?” asked the bishop.
“Her dress was torn – in two places. Her wrist had been twisted and a little sprained.”
