DOI Artikel:
Sharp, Evelyn: The end of an episode
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21805#0260
256 The End of an Episode
said the Squire’s wife, who had read some modern novels, and
therefore did not talk of Providence.
“ No doubt there are instances,” assented the blind man
patiently, and he wondered vaguely why the third lady whom they
had indistinctly mentioned to him on their arrival had not spoken
at all. He had not lost his sight long, and it worried him to be
unable to attach any kind of personality to her.
“ Löss of physical sight may sometimes mean a gain of spiritual
perception,” the Rector’s wife laboured onwards. She sometimes
copied out her husband’s sermons for him, and she had dropped
unawares into the phraseology.
“ It is to be hoped there are compensations,” said her host, and
he turned towards the sofa where he imagined his unknown guest
to be sitting.
The third lady spoke at last.
u I suppose there’s some good in being blind, as you both
seem to think so, but I don’t know where it comes in, I’m
sure ; and I’m perfectly certain nothing can make up for it
for all that,” she said, not very clearly ; but the novelist hailed
her incoherence with relief, and recognised the human note
in it.
“Nothing can,” he said, and nodded in her direction.
The third lady went on :
“ I wonder, have you tried Dr. Middleton ? ” His countenance
feil again. After all, she was only like everybody eise.
“Oh no, I haven’t tried him, nor any one eise you are likely to
mention,” he answered with a touch of impatience.
“ Haven’t you, really ? Now I call that rather a pity; don’t you ? ”
“ Oh, very likely,” he said indifferently, and waited for them
to go. The Squire’s wife was the first to move, and she pressed
his hand warmly and made the unnecessary remark that her
husband
said the Squire’s wife, who had read some modern novels, and
therefore did not talk of Providence.
“ No doubt there are instances,” assented the blind man
patiently, and he wondered vaguely why the third lady whom they
had indistinctly mentioned to him on their arrival had not spoken
at all. He had not lost his sight long, and it worried him to be
unable to attach any kind of personality to her.
“ Löss of physical sight may sometimes mean a gain of spiritual
perception,” the Rector’s wife laboured onwards. She sometimes
copied out her husband’s sermons for him, and she had dropped
unawares into the phraseology.
“ It is to be hoped there are compensations,” said her host, and
he turned towards the sofa where he imagined his unknown guest
to be sitting.
The third lady spoke at last.
u I suppose there’s some good in being blind, as you both
seem to think so, but I don’t know where it comes in, I’m
sure ; and I’m perfectly certain nothing can make up for it
for all that,” she said, not very clearly ; but the novelist hailed
her incoherence with relief, and recognised the human note
in it.
“Nothing can,” he said, and nodded in her direction.
The third lady went on :
“ I wonder, have you tried Dr. Middleton ? ” His countenance
feil again. After all, she was only like everybody eise.
“Oh no, I haven’t tried him, nor any one eise you are likely to
mention,” he answered with a touch of impatience.
“ Haven’t you, really ? Now I call that rather a pity; don’t you ? ”
“ Oh, very likely,” he said indifferently, and waited for them
to go. The Squire’s wife was the first to move, and she pressed
his hand warmly and made the unnecessary remark that her
husband