Of course all this would never have kept up but for the Yollands.
The Hydriots are wife, children, everything to him who is now called
Vicar of St. Christopher's, Mycening. He has refused better
preferment, for he has grown noted now, since the work that Harold
had begun is still the task he feels his charge.
And whatever is good is led by the manager of the works, whose
influence over the workmen's minds has never failed. Even when he
talked to me on that day, I thought there was a change in his tone.
He had never sneered (at least in my hearing) nor questioned other
men's faith, but when he told me of Harold his manner had something
of awe, as well as of sorrow and admiration, and I could not but
think that a sense had dawned out that the spiritual was a reality,
and an absolute power over the material.
The great simple nature that had gradually and truly undergone that
influence had been watched and studied by him, and had had its
effect. The supernatural had made itself felt, and thenceforth he
made it his study, in a quiet, unobtrusive manner, scarcely known
even to his brother, but gradually resulting in heart-whole
acceptance of faith, and therewith in full devotion of heart and
soul.
Did Harold rejoice in that victory, which to him would have been one
of the dearest of all?
CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION.
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