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father damien-第4部分
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the Reverend Dr。 Hyde and the Reverend H。 B。 Gage: the Apia bar…
room; the Honolulu manse。
But I fear you scarce appreciate how you appear to your fellow…men;
and to bring it home to you; I will suppose your story to be true。
I will suppose … and God forgive me for supposing it … that Damien
faltered and stumbled in his narrow path of duty; I will suppose
that; in the horror of his isolation; perhaps in the fever of
incipient disease; he; who was doing so much more than he had
sworn; failed in the letter of his priestly oath … he; who was so
much a better man than either you or me; who did what we have never
dreamed of daring … he too tasted of our common frailty。 〃O; Iago;
the pity of it!〃 The least tender should be moved to tears; the
most incredulous to prayer。 And all that you could do was to pen
your letter to the Reverend H。 B。 Gage!
Is it growing at all clear to you what a picture you have drawn of
your own heart? I will try yet once again to make it clearer。 You
had a father: suppose this tale were about him; and some informant
brought it to you; proof in hand: I am not making too high an
estimate of your emotional nature when I suppose you would regret
the circumstance? that you would feel the tale of frailty the more
keenly since it shamed the author of your days? and that the last
thing you would do would be to publish it in the religious press?
Well; the man who tried to do what Damien did; is my father; and
the father of the man in the Apia bar; and the father of all who
love goodness; and he was your father too; if God had given you
grace to see it。
End
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