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21 " ...now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away. "
― Elizabeth Goudge , Gentian Hill
22 " In one life only had the fighting, the healing, the teaching, the praying, and the suffering held equal and perfect place, and that life could never on earth be lived again. For some dying men, he thought, there would have been comfort in the old belief that a soul comes back to earth again and again, the fighter returning to pray and the teacher to heal. Once he had half believed that himself, but now he could not. Once only had the perfect life been focused in a human body. He had not returned. Why should we? The Word now taught and healed, fought and suffered, through the yielded wills of other men. "
23 " His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness. "