Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2
George MacDonald
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Description
Volume two of George MacDonald's Thomas Wingfold, Curate opens at a lodge gate near dark, in a chapter called Rachel and Her Uncle. Rachel envies Miss Lingard's strength, height, and ease on horseback. She wishes she could look about without turning her whole crooked body.
Her uncle answers that wishing differs from grumbling, as a prayer differs from a complaint. Contentment, he says, is not satisfaction with imperfection. Rachel admits she enjoys life yet feels triumph crossing the churchyard beside her small shadow. Readers get a theological novel where disability, envy, and hope are argued gently indoors.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | George MacDonald |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 295 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |