137 117 129 that finer spiritual insight indispensable
to the essential understanding
of the essential in certain exceptional characters,
whether evel ones or good. ^ In a matter of some importance I have
seen a girl wind an old lawyer
about her little finger. Nor was it the
dotage of senile love. Nothing of the
sort. But he knew law better than
he knew the girl's heart. Coke and
Blackstone hardly shed so much light
into certain obscure spiritual ^ mystic human heart places as the Hebrew
prophets. And who were they? Mostly
recluses."
At the time ^ my inexperience was such that I did not quite
see the force drift of all this. It may be that I see it now.
And, indeed, if that lexicon which
137 117 129 that finer spiritual insight indispensable
to the essential understanding
of the essential in certain exceptional characters,
whether evel ones or good. ^ In a matter of some importance I have
seen a girl wind an old lawyer
about her little finger. Nor was it the
dotage of senile love. Nothing of the
sort. But he knew law better than
he knew the girl's heart. Coke and
Blackstone hardly shed so much light
into certain obscure spiritual ^ mystic human heart places as the Hebrew
prophets. And who were they? Mostly
recluses."
At the time ^ my inexperience was such that I did not quite
see the force drift of all this. It may be that I see it now.
And, indeed, if that lexicon which

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